Petrine Baroque
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Petrine Baroque is a style of 17th and 18th century Baroque architecture and decoration favoured by Peter the Great and employed to design buildings in the newly founded Russian capital, Saint Petersb
The Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral by architect Dominico Trezzini exists as it was originally designed. It is regarded as the most notable example of the Petrine Baroque style of architecture.
Kikin Hall (1714), an example of private residence dating from Peter I's reign.
The Summer Palace
The Twelve Colleges, Construction began by Trezzini in 1722
The Peter and Paul Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg, built between
Petrine Baroque
…drew inspiration from a rather modest Dutch, Danish, and Swedish architecture of the time. Extant examples of the style in St Petersburg are the Peter and Paul Cathedral (Trezzini), the Twelve Colleges (Trezzini), the Kunstkamera (Georg Johann Mattarnovi), Kikin Hall (Schlüter) and Menshikov Palace (Giovanni Fontana…
Petropavlovskiy Sobor
Tombs inside the cathedral
Tombstones marking the burial of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in St. Catherine's Chapel
Peter and Paul Cathedral.