Saint-Petersburg

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Saint-Petersburg

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Cathedrals

• 1. The Smolny Cathedral
• 2. The Church of the Savior on Split Blood
• 3. The Peter and Paul Cathedral
• 4. St. Isaacs Cathedral
• 5. The Kazan Cathedral
• 6. The Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery

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The Smolny Cathedral

• It was built in 1748-1764 by architect Rastrelli.
  It is a huge five-domed cathedral 85 metres high.
  It was built in style Rococo. Now the cathedral
  is used as a concert hall for choral church music
  and for exhibitions.

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The Church of the Savior on Split Blood

• This church is situated not far from Nevsky
  Prospect on the Griboyedov Canal Embankment and
  next to the State Russian Museum.
• It was built between 1883 and 1907 after the
  project of the frchitect Alfred Parland. This
  church was constructed on the place where the
  Emperor Alexander II was mortally wounded by a
  bomb.

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The Peter and Paul Cathedral

• It is situated on the ground of the Peter and
  Paul Fortress and was built in 1733 by the
  Italian architect Domenico Trezzini. The
  cathedral is 122.5 metres high. It was built in
  the style of Peters baroque. The bell-tower is
  crowned with a gilded spire. A weather-vane in
  the form of an angel with a cross is on the top
  of the cathedral. All the Russian tsars beginning
  from Peter I were buried here.

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St. Isaacs Cathedral

• The cathedral is situated not far from the Neva
  River on St. Isaacs Square.
• St. Isaac was considered to be Peters I patron
  saint. Cathedral was built between 1818-1858 by
  the French architect Montferrand, who designed
  the project. The cathedral is 101.8 metres high.
  Its decorated with 112 granite monolithic
  columns, bronze sculptures, mosaics, paintings.

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The Kazan Cathedral

• The cathedral was erected between 1801 and
  1811 by a Russian architect Andrei Voronikhin. It
  is situated in Nevsky Prospect. The cathedral
  contains trophies of the War of 1812 and served
  as a monument to victory over Napoleon. The
  colonnade of cathedral consists of 96 columns in
  4 rows. Each column is 12.37 metres high. Since
  1932 the cathedral has housed the museum of the
  History of Religion and Atheism. Now services are
  once again held in the cathedral.

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The Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery

• In 1710 Peter I ordered to build a monastery
  named in honour of the Saint Trinity and Saint
  Alexander Nevsky. Domenico Trezzini made the
  design of the first temple. Between 1776 and 1790
  on its place the new cathedral was erected after
  the design of the architect Ivan Starov. The Holy
  Trinity Cathedral was designed in the style of
  Russian classicism.

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Vocabulary

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