Monument to Pyotr Stolypin (Kyiv)
The monument was unveiled on September 6, 1913, exactly two years after the death of the Prime Minister, in Dumska Square (now Independence Square) opposite the City Duma building and stood until the revolutionary events…
Monument to Pyotr Stolypin (Saratov)
The monument to Pyotr Stolypin, a sculptural composition dedicated to the Russian reformer, Prime Minister, and governor of Saratov, is located in Saratov on Stolypin Square. Its opening took place on April 17, 2002, as …
The Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Nizhny Novgorod
The Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh is a parish church of the Nizhny Novgorod deanery of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was consecrated in 1869 and is located on Sergievskaya Street in N…
Christmas (Stroganov) Church in Nizhny Novgorod
The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, also known as the Christmas or Stroganov Church, is an active Orthodox temple located on Christmas Street in Nizhny Novgorod. It was built between 1696 and 1719 …
Monument to Chernyshevsky in St. Petersburg
The monument dedicated to the Russian philosopher Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky in St. Petersburg is one of the most refined monuments, created in 1947. The project was developed by architect V.I. Yakovleva and sculp…
Green Bridge, the First Cast Iron Bridge in St. Petersburg
The first wooden drawbridge over the Moika River on Nevsky Prospect was built in 1716-1717 and served as the boundary of the new capital until 1726. In 1735, the bridge was repaired, painted green, and officially named "…
Ascension Cathedral in the Ascension Pechersky Monastery, Nizhny Novgorod
The Pechersky Monastery, after being relocated, was initially built of wood, including the Ascension Cathedral. In 1629, Archimandrite Raphael, the monastery's abbot, requested permission from the Patriarch to construct …
V.M. Rukavishnikov Estate in Nizhny Novgorod
The territory where the estate complex is located was once part of the Small Ostrog, a fortification of medieval Nizhny Novgorod. It is believed that the chain of wooden-earth fortifications of the ostrog began to be bui…
Church of the Merciful Savior in Nizhny Novgorod
The Church of the Merciful Savior in Nizhny Novgorod is the only surviving church built in memory of the miraculous salvation of Emperor Alexander III's family after a train crash on the Kursk-Kharkov railway on October …
Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in Gordeevka
The construction of the stone church in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God began in the 1680s by the order of Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov. A similar church was also founded in Ustyuzhna-Zhelezopol.
The ch…
