|
|
The imposing Kazan Cathedral, with its mighty crescent-shaped colonnade of 96 Corinthian columns facing on to Nevsky Prospekt, is the architectural highlight of Petersburg’s central boulevard. Any old travel guide will have you searching for a certain ‘Museum of Atheism’ – in vain. The Cathedral is now once again fully at the service of the Russian Orthodox Church.
|
|
| ...more |
|
|
The 122.5m high golden steeple, topped with an angel as weather vane, is the highest structure in old St. Petersburg. The steeple rises from the Peter and Paul Fortress, where, in 1703, the cornerstone of the city of St. Petersburg was laid. The cathedral achieved fame as the burial place of the Russian Tsars.
|
|
| ...more |
|
|
St. Isaac’s Cathedral, covering an area of over a hectare, and more than 100m high, is St. Petersburg’s largest church. The splendour that reigns inside the monumental building is difficult to express in words. The colonnade under its golden dome gives a unique view out over the city on all sides. This panorama view should be the starting point of your first tour of St. Petersburg.
|
|
| ...more |
|
|
After all the baroque and classicist architecture, this cathedral brings home to you again that St. Petersburg is a Russian city. The neo-Russian style was all the rage when Tsar Alexander III commissioned Alfred Parland to build a cathedral “in the purest Russian style of the 17th century”.
|
|
| ...more |
|
