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:

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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.