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Map of St. Petersburg, 1880s. 1801 Friendly Society of Aficionados of Elegance formed. [citation needed] Saint Michael's Castle built. Tsarina's Meadow renamed Field of Mars. 1802 – Saint Petersburg Philharmonia formed. 1804 – Petersburg Pedagogical Institute established. 1805 – Russian Naval Museum established. 1806 – Police Bridge ...
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments is the name used by UNESCO when it collectively designated the historic core of the Russian city of St. Petersburg, as well as buildings and ensembles located in the immediate vicinity as a World Heritage Site in 1991.
Peter moved the capital from Moscow to Saint Petersburg in 1712, nine years before the Treaty of Nystad. Called the "window to Europe", it was a seaport and also a base for Peter's navy, protected by the fortress of Kronstadt. The first person to build a home in Saint Petersburg was Cornelis Cruys, commander of the Baltic Fleet.
World Heritage Sites ; Site Image Location Year listed UNESCO data Description Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments: Saint Petersburg: 1990 540; i, ii, iv, vi (cultural) Saint Petersburg was conceived by Tsar Peter the Great as a new capital and a port city at the banks of the Neva River, at the Gulf of Finland.
Satellite picture of St. Petersburg The Griboyedov Canal Aerial view of the Vasilyevsky Island Districts of St. Petersburg: 1. Admiralteysky 2. Vasileostrovsky 3. Vyborgsky 4. Kalininsky 5. Kirovsky 6. Kolpinsky 7. Krasnogvardeysky 8. Krasnoselsky 9. Kronshtadtsky 10. Kurortny 11. Moskovsky 12. Nevsky 13. Petrogradsky 14. Petrodvortsovy 15 ...
Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of Imperial Russia , and a historically strategic port , it is governed as a federal city .
This quite basically presents the known world in its real geographic appearance which is visible in the so-called Vatican Map of Isidor (776), the world maps of Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary on the Apocalypse of St John (8th century), the Anglo-Saxon Map (ca. 1000), the Sawley map, the Psalter map, or the large mappae mundi of the 13th ...
Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe. Medieval maps such as the Hereford Mappa Mundi still assumed that Scandinavia was an island. Progress was made in the 16th century, and Gerard Mercator gave an ...