Eastern and Central Europe (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

ST PETERSBURG 139 SIGHTS AT A GLANCE 0 metres 0 yards 500 500 View of the city and the gilded spire of the Admiralty Arts Square ...

Peter and Paul Fortress 1 Петропавловская крепость Petropavlovskaya krepost The building of the Peter and Paul Fortress, ordered ...

ST PETERSBURG 141 Statue of Peter the Great by Mikhail Chemiakin (1991). Ivan Gate, in the outer wall, was constructed between 1 ...

142 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp160–61 and pp162–3 Ochre-painted southern façade of Pri ...

ST PETERSBURG 143 biting sat ires on the archetypal Petersburg bureaucrat. The composer, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, died in the apartmen ...

144 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE The New Hermitage was designed by Leo von Klenze to form a coherent part of the Large Hermitage. It is ...

ST PETERSBURG 145 Winter Palace Façade Rastrelli embellished the palace façades with 400 columns and 16 different window designs ...

146 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE The Hermitage Collections The Gallery of Ancient Painting is decorated with scenes from ancient literat ...

ST PETERSBURG 147 . La Danse (1910) Henri Matisse used strong tones of three colours – blue, green and red – to heighten the dra ...

148 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE CLASSICAL ART The Graeco-Roman marble sculptures range from the famous Tauride Venus of the 3rd century ...

ST PETERSBURG 149 FLEMISH, DUTCH AND GERMAN ART The small collection of early paintings from the Netherlands includes a Madonna ...

150 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE The Hall of St George has monolithic columns and wall facings of Italian Carrara marble. The Field Mars ...

ST PETERSBURG 151 Dark Corridor The tape stries here include the 17th-century Marriage of Emperor Constantine, made to designs b ...

152 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp160–61 and pp162–3 The remarkable stove in the Summer P ...

ST PETERSBURG 153 Pushkin House- Museum w Музей-квартира А. С. Пушкина Muzey-kvartira A.S. Pushkina Naberezhnaya reki Moyki 12. ...

154 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp160–61 and pp162–3 Arts Square t Площадь Искусств Plosh ...

ST PETERSBURG 155 uncon trollable flooding from the Neva, which made the avenue navigable in 1721, fine mansions, such as the St ...

156 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE Practical & Travel Information Moscow is not as difficult for visitors to find their way around as ...

MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG 157 DOCUMENTATION http://www.petersburgcity.com OVIR Tel (499) 238 6400. VISITOR INFORMATION Cosmos Tel ...

158 NORTH EASTERN EUROPE Shopping & Entertainment It is easy to find interesting and beautiful souvenirs in Moscow and St Pe ...