Step Into History
Walk St Petersburg in 1760
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Step Into History · City walk
Elizabeth's Saint Petersburg, 1760
This is the capital under Empress Elizabeth at the height of her baroque building boom, when Rastrelli's turquoise-and-gold palaces and Smolny's soaring blue domes are reshaping the marshy shoreline. The walk follows frozen waterways, wooden embankments and wide parade grounds between the Admiralty spire and the nearly finished Winter Palace, showing public life, markets and winter traffic in the young imperial capital.
36 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of St Petersburg as it stood in 1760 (“History of Saint Petersburg”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Gulf of Finland Approach
- 2. Strelka, Vasilievsky Island
- ↳ Harbour Merchants' Counting Room · interior
- 3. Twelve Collegia
- ↳ Academy Assembly Hall · interior
- 4. Kunstkamera by the Neva
- ↳ Natural History Cabinet · interior
- 5. English Embankment
- 6. Admiralty and Spire
- ↳ Admiralty Model Room · interior
- 7. Palace Square
- 8. Winter Palace Facade
- ↳ Jordan Staircase · interior
- ↳ Grand Audience Chamber · interior
- 9. Winter Canal
- 10. Palace Embankment
- ↳ Hermitage Picture Cabinet · interior
- 11. Summer Garden
- ↳ Marble Grotto Pavilion · interior
- 12. Field of Mars
- ↳ Ice-Hill Festival Pavilion · interior
- 13. Anichkov Bridge
- 14. Fontanka River Embankment
- ↳ Mirrored Ballroom of a Nobleman · interior
- 15. Moika River Embankment
- ↳ Goldsmith's Workshop · interior
- 16. Nevsky Prospekt
- 17. Gostiny Dvor
- ↳ Great Merchants' Arcade · interior
- 18. Sennaya Square
- 19. St Sampson's Cathedral
- ↳ Main Nave and Iconostasis · interior
- 20. Alexander Nevsky Monastery
- 21. Smolny Convent
- ↳ Cathedral Nave and Iconostasis · interior
- 22. Smolny Bell Tower View