hidden Railway stations Railway stations. For the development of projects of railway stations on the first large-scale railway in Russia between Saint Petersburg and Moscow the committee consisting of architects K.A. Ton, R.A. Zhelyazevich, N.E. Yefimov, A.P. Bryullov... more

hidden Raiway Station (Luga Town) reference

hidden Raiway Station (Lyuban Station) reference

hidden Raiway Station (Malaya Vishera Station) reference

hidden Rapti, a country estate Rapti, a country estate (the settlement named after Dzerzhinsky, the Luga district). In 1616 Tsar Mikhail Fyedorovich granted the village estate Rapti located on the shore of Lake Cheremenetskoye to G.A. Bazanin. Dyring more then 200 years the... more

hidden Raskulitsi, a country estate Raskulitsi, a country estate (an uninhabited tract located nearby the village of Cherenkovitsi, the Volosovo district). Since 1773 the estate of Raskulitsi belonged to the Vakhtins family. In 1853 Artillery Lieutenant-General N.V. Vakhtin sold the... more

hidden Rastrelli, Francesko de (1700-1771), an architect Francesko de Rastrelli (1700-1771), an architect, artist. The son of the Florentine sculptor Bartolomeo Rastrelli. During 1715-1725 F. Rastrelli worked with his father in St. Petersburg, then he learned in France. During 1730-1763 he served at the... more

hidden "Red Mountains", a memorial reference

hidden Restoration of buildings of architectural and historic interest. Restoration of buildings of architectural and historic interest. The first experience of the research restoration of the Russian Middle Ages monuments in the territory of the pesent-day Leningrad Oblast dates from 1846-1847, when in the Ivangorod... more

hidden Rif, fort reference

hidden Rinaldi, Antonio (ca. 1709 - 1794), an architect Antonio Rinaldi (ca. 1709 - 1794), an architect. He originated from italy. From 1752 Rinaldi served under the Hetman of Malaya Russia K.G. Razumovsky (he designed and built in towns of Baturin, Glukhov, Kozelets, Pochep). From 1754 he worked in St.... more

hidden Ristimyaki cemetery reference

hidden "Road of Victory", an obelisk reference

hidden Rogaty (Horned) Fortress reference

hidden Romanovka, a country estate reference

hidden Ronka, a country estate reference

hidden Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble The Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble (the settlement of Ropsha, the Lomonosov District). It is a building of architectural and historic interest and landscape architecture art of the 18th century. It is one of palace-and-park ensembles that were... more

hidden Ropsha, a country estate reference

hidden Round Tower (Vyborg Town), the The Round Tower (Vyborg Town, The Market square). The tower was built by fortifier Gans Bergen. The tower was located in 20 m from the fortress wall which defended Vyborg from the outside Novgorod road. The tower protected Skotogonnuye Gate (The... more

hidden Rozhdestveno, a country estate Rozhdestveno, a country estate (the village of Rozhdestveno, the Gatchina district). In the early 18th century the estate belonged to tsarevitch Aleksey Petrovich. The village's name appeared in 1713 after building the Church of the of the Nativity... more

hidden "Rumbolovo Hill", a memorial reference

hidden Runovo, a country estate reference

hidden Ruska, Luigi (1762 - 1822), an architect Luigi Ruska (1762 - 1822), an architect. Ruska originated from Switzerland. In 1783 he arrived into st. Petersburg, he worked as a bricklayer with Yu.M. Felten, G. Quarenghi, F.I. Volkov, E.T. Sokolov, V. Brenna. He started working independently in... more

hidden Ryabovo, a country estate Ryabovo, a country estate (on the territory of the town of Vsevolozhsk). Under Peter I the estate belonged to A.D. Menshikov, under Anna Ioannovna it belonged to Duke Ernst Johann Biron, in the middle of the 18th century the estate owner was... more

hidden S.M. Kirov, monuments to Monuments to S.M. Kirov. One of the first monuments in the Leningrad Oblast was built in the Aluminium Works territory in Volkhov Town in 1937 according to the sculptor N.V. Tomsky's project. N.V. Tomsky created monuments to S.M. Kirov in the... more

hidden Saarinen, Eliel (1873- 1950), an architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (1873- 1950), an architect. Saarinen graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Helsinki in 1897. He studied painting at the University School of Arts, designed furniture and items of the applied art. During 1896-1904... more

hidden Sadovnikov, Pyotr Semyonovich (1796 - 1877), an architect Pyotr Semyonovich Sadovnikov (1796 - 1877), an architect. He was V.S. Sadovnikov's brother. He descended from serves of the Prince Golitsin. P.S. Sadovnikov learned from A.N. Voronikhin, graduated incomplete course of the St. Petersburg Academy of... more

hidden Sadovnikov, Sergey Vasilyevich (1835 - 1906), an architect Sergey Vasilyevich Sadovnikov (1835 - 1906), an architect, academician of architecture (1881). Sergey Vasilyevich Sadovnikov was a son of the artist V.S. Sadovnikov (1800-1879). S.V. Sadovnikov graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in... more

hidden "Sail and Cross", a monument reference

hidden Sala, a country estate Sala, a country estate (the village of Sala, the Kingisepp district). In the middle of the 18th century the village of Sala was the centre of the estate of Terpigorye that belonged to General F.-V. Bleken. In 1764 his daughter Sh.-M. Korf became the... more