Vasilii Surikov, “Morning of the Streltsy Execution” (1881)
Monastery of the Holy Trinity Saint Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky (1710)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Hetman Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709)
"The police has its special calling: which is to intervene to protect justice and rights to generate good order and morals, to guarantee safety from thieves, robbers, rapists and extortioners, to extirpate disordered and loose living. It binds everyone to labour and an honest profession...It defends widows, orphans and foreigners in accordance with God’s law, educates the young in chaste purity and honest learning; in short, for all of these, the police is the soul of citizenship and of all good order." (1724, edict by Peter the Great)
The Cathedral of the Annunciation (Blagoveshchenskii sobor) (Pskov stonelayers, 1484-89)
The Cathedral of the Archangel (Arkhangel'skii sobor) (Aleviz Novyi, 1505-08)
Cathedral of the ArchangelIconostasis
Central IconArchangel Michael
The Church of the Twelve Apostles (Tserkov' Dvenadtsati Apostolov) (Patriarch Nikon, 1653-55)
Terem Palace (Teremnoi dvorets) (1635-36)
Tsar-Cannon (Tsar-Pushka) (1586)
The Tsar-Bell (Tsar-Kolokol) (1733-35)
First Stone Buildings – the Admiralty
Peter-Paul Fortress (one of first constructions, St. Petersburg dates from its first
stone, May 1703)
Peter’s domik
Series of wooden huts built first to house the influx of workers
Peter I wanted a planned city, and Italian architect Tresini designed it (but Jean-Baptiste Leblon offered this plan in 1717 (not followed))
Kikin mansion (1714)
Menshikov Palace (1710-1727)
Yusupov Palace, 1770s
Yusupov Palace Theatre
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederik Ruysch (Jan van Neck, 1683)
Kazan’ Cathedral (1801-11), inspired by Basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome, intended as Russia’s main Orthodox church and post-1812
monument to Russian victory over Napoleon
Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood
Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673-1729) (‘Generalissimus’)
Menshikov Palace
Count Ernst-Johann Biron (“Bironovshchina”)(1690-1772)
Ivan Shuvalov (1727-1797)
Catherine the Great (1729-[1762]-1796]“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings” (letter to Diderot)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732-[1764]-1798)
Grigory Orlov (1734-1783)“A gel, my sovereign, my dearest husband, my priceless Grishenka, sweet lips, my
falcon, my beautiful pheasant”
Gatchina
Alexander Vasilchikov (1744-1813)
“I parted with a beautiful, but extremely boring man, who was immediately replaced - to my own surprise - with the most outstanding original of our age”
Grigorii Potemkin (1739-1791)“My lord Potemkin! What a bad thing you have done! You confused the head,
thought to be the most brilliant in Europe!”
“As God is my witness, I don't do this out of debauchery, to which I am not inclined. If I had a husband whom I could love, I would have stayed with him forever”
Platon Aleksandrovich Zubov (1767-1822)
Taming of the Shrew (Katharine and Petruchio, The Modern Quixote) (1791)
The Bronze Horseman(commissioned by Catherine the Great, constructed 1770-82)
"for the benefit of my Empire I pillaged President Montesquieu [his 1748 "Spirit of Laws"], without naming him in the text. I hope that if he had seen me at work, he would have forgiven this literary theft if only for the good of 20 million people which it may bring about. He loved humanity too much to be offended."
Catherine Visiting Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) in 1764 (Ivan Fedorov, 1884)