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Kazan Cathedral, now not a museum as such, but formerly housing Museum of Religion and Atheism (presently occupying a different building, the State Museum of the History of Religion [51]); designed by Andrey Voronikhin, the cathedral resembles Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica and is a monument to Russia's victory in Napoleonic Wars of 1812-14
The hotel is situated at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Mikhailovskaya Street. Share of the St. Petersburg company "Hotel Europe", issued 1873. The Grand Hotel Europe (Russian: Гранд Отель Европа) is a historic five-star luxury hotel on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Hermitage Museum and building of the New Hermitage by Leo von Klenze. Millionnaya Street (Russian: Миллионная улица), a street on the left bank of the Neva in the Central District of St. Petersburg in Russia, runs - parallel to the Palace Quay - from the Swan Canal to the Palace Square.
The Admiralty tower The Alexander Palace The Alexandrinsky Theatre Church of the Savior on Blood Grand Choral Synagogue The Alexander Column and the Winter Palace in Palace Square The Imperial Academy of Arts The Kazan Cathedral at night Kikin Hall The Kunstkamera The Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange The Smolny Convent The Peter and Paul Fortress Narva Triumphal Gate Saint Isaac's Cathedral ...
Other buildings and locations, assigned to the Russian museum, include the Summer Palace of Peter I (1710–1714) with the Summer Garden, the Marble Palace of Count Orlov (1768–1785), St Michael's Castle of Emperor Paul (1797–1801), the cabin of Peter the Great, and the Rastrelliesque Stroganov Palace on the Nevsky Prospekt (1752–1754).
The Saint Petersburg is a four-star hotel in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was constructed in 1970 under the name Hotel Leningrad. The hotel has 554 rooms and a concert hall with a capacity of 797 people. It also contains an exhibition area and three conference halls. [citation needed]
Kostenevich, Albert (1995), Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, New York: Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0-81093-432-9; Norman, Geraldine (1997), The Hermitage; The Biography of a Great Museum, New York: Fromm International, ISBN 0-88064-190-8
Mendeleev's office and library in his apartment in St. Petersburg. Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment is a museum apartment of the Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev, who is famous for establishing the Periodic table of arranging chemical elements by their atomic masses, which allowed the prediction of properties of elements (i.e., simple substances) yet to be discovered.