The favorite places of my beloved cities St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia.

понедельник, 24 февраля 2014 г.

My visit of the historical apartment of the famous Russian poet Alexander Blok in St.-Petersburg.

Музей-квартира А. Блока в Санкт-Петербурге находится по адресу: Санкт-Петербург, улица Декабристов д. 57.

Вот как выглядит лестница этого старого доходного дома.

Музей Блока был открыт 28 ноября 1980 года в доме, где А.А. Блок прожил 9 лет — с июля 1912 года до своей смерти в августе 1921 году. После смерти поэта его архив, библиотека и собрание личных вещей сохранялись его женой. После её кончины они были переданы в Институт русской литературы Академии Наук СССР, где частично экспонировались в 1960—1970-х годах.

Музей состоит из двух частей: мемориальной квартиры на 4-м этаже, созданной на уникальных подлинных предметах обстановки и убранства, принадлежавших поэту,

и литературной экспозиции на 2-м этаже, рассказывающей о его жизни и творчестве.

В доме на Офицерской, 57 (сейчас — Декабристов, 57) А. Блок жил, занимая последовательно две квартиры, с 24.06.1912 до смерти. К столетию со дня рождения поэта, в ноябре 1980 года, здесь был открыт музей-квартира. В музее открыты для просмотра три экспозиции — мемориальная (квартира № 21), литературная (квартира № 23) и экспозиция «Блок и его окружение», открытие которой состоялось в 2008 году (в квартире № 21).

среда, 15 мая 2013 г.

The General Staff Building is situated on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia in front of the Winter Palase.

The General Staff Building is situated on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia in front of the Winter Palace.

The description of General Staff Building is below.

The building was designed in 1819-1829. It consists of two wings, which are separated by a tripartite triumphal arch. It commemorating the Russian victory over Napoleon in 1812. The arch links Palace Square through Bolshaya Morskaya St. to Nevsky Prospekt. The western wing now hosts the headquarters of the Western Military District of the Russian Army. The eastern wing was transferred to the Hermitage Museum in 1993.

This is the view of Palace Square and the General Staff Building in St. Petersburg. Russia.

You can see the Google Earth model of this building on:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=191d0f53f89647f66f5cabd5204b081a&ct=mdrm&prevstart=540

Арка была построена как главный и завершающий монумент, посвящённый Отечественной войне 1812 года. К. Росси, проектируя главную площадь молодой столицы, решил связать два крыла Главного штаба триумфальной аркой

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The view of the General Staff Building from the Palace Square (1820).

Portrait of Italian architect Carlo Rossi (1820).

The General Staff Building at present time.

понедельник, 26 ноября 2012 г.

The Bestuzhev Courses were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia.

The Courses opened its doors in 1878. It was named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first Director. The most famouse professors of the Bestuzhev Courses were Alexander Borodin, Faddei Zielinski, Dmitry Mendeleyev, Ivan Sechenov, and Sergey Platonov. A building for Bestuzhev Courses on the 10th Liniya (Line) of Vasilevsky Ostrov (Island) was built in 1885 on a draft of Academician of Architecture A. Krasovsky.

Bestuzhev courses in St. Petersburg. 1878-1918

Konstantin Bestuzhev-Rumin (1829 - 1897)

Initiators of foundation of High Women's (Bestuzhev's) Courses. (1890).

Professor of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Courses Ivan Meshchersky among girl students (1914).

Female students of the courses were called "Bestujevka".

Female students of the courses.

The girl students in the physics laboratory (1913).

The Library of the Bestuzhev Courses now (2012).

The new observatory of the Bestuzhev Courses (1912).

The Bestuzhev Courses were on the 10th Line of Vasilevsky Ostrov (Island) and some girl students rented room on 8th Line and then in the very nice building on 14th Line.

Bestuzhev Courses building now. (2012).

The old building of Moscow Exchange on Ilyinka Street in the center of Moscow.

Ilyinka is a very old street in the center of Moscow. There is very old building of the Moscow Сommodity and Stock Exchange.

There his is 3D model of Moscow Exchange Builbing.

The Ilinka Street runs from the Kremlin to the ancient walls of Kitai Goroda.

Kitai Gorod (China Town) is the oldest district of Moscow.

The Moscow Exchange building was an architectural monument of the second half of XIX century. It was built in 1873-1875 by architect A. Kaminski in the style of late eclecticism.

The Moscow Exchange has evolved primarily as a Commodity Exchange. The main commodity were cotton, cotton yarn, muslin. Some later the list was added with oil, coal and minerals.

The Moscow Exchange building in 1839

The Moscow Exchange building in 1880.

View from the Market Square.

The old building of Moscow Exchange now.

The street address is: Moscow, Ilyinka Street, 6/1.

The Chamber of Commerce of Russia is located in this building now.

The history of the Petrovka street in the center of Moscow.

Petrovka Street and the Petrovsky Monastery in the late XIX century.

Petrovka street is one of the main and oldest streets in the center of Moscow.

It starts about 1/2 mile from Kremlin and Red Square. It received its name for Petrovsky Monastery founded in the late XIV century. The name Petrovka was used since the beginning of the XVII century and since then has never changed. This is rare for the historic streets of downtown of Moscow.

Petrovka Street in 1910.

In the XVIII century the street began to be built up rapidly in the second half of the century there appeared the mansions of the nobility of Moscow. In the XIX century Petrovka has become one of the main shopping streets of Moscow. Despite a series of rearrangements of the XX century, changed the architectural ensemble of the street, on Petrovka preserved a large number of notable historic buildings.The picture of Petrovka in the early XX century is below. The view is from the intersection with the Kuznetsk Most Street.