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.

The history of Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg. Russia.

Nevsky Avenue (Prospect) is the main street in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. Planned by Peter the Great as beginning of the road to Novgorod and Moscow, the avenue runs from the Admiralty to the Moscow Railway Station and, after making a turn at Vosstaniya Square, to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

The chief sights include the Stroganov Palace, the huge neoclassical Kazan Cathedral, 

This is theSketchUp 3D model of the Kazan Cathedral.

the Art Nouveau Bookhouse (Dom Knigi), Elisseeff Emporium, half a dozen of 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine the Great, the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues and much more. The feverish life of the avenue was described by Nikolai Gogol in his story "Nevsky Prospekt". Fyodor Dostoevsky often employed the Nevksy Prospekt as a setting within his works, such as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Double: A Petersburg Poem".

The view of the Nevsky Prospeсt from the Admiralty (1753).

This is the plan of St. Petersburg by I. Homann. ( 1720). 

View of Palace Square from Nevsky Prospeсt (1804).

Nevsky Prospect. Early 19th century.

Nevsky Grand Gostiniy Dvor (1910).

The Nevsky Prospect (1900).

Monument to Alexander III on Znamenskaya Square. (1910).

The Nevsky Prospeсt (1912).

The Nevsky Prospeсt f (1900).

The Nevsky Prospeсt near the Nicholas Railway Station (1890).

The Nevsky Prospect in 1901.