Peles Castle (Sinaia)

St. Petersburg Oceanarium Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

The idea of a Saint Petersburg Oceanarium belongs to the Rubin Closed-Jointed Stock Company, and this idea was implemented by the Finnish architect Hannu Laitila. Saint Petersburg Oceanarium (the Oceanarium, for short) displays a living collection that contains over 4,500 exhibits of fish and water invertebrates belonging to almost 150 species. ...

Mikhailovsky Castle, Engineer Castle Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

The Mikhailovsky Castle or the Engineer Castle also called the St. Michael's Castle is the largest monument of architecture closing the history of the 18th century St. Petersburg architecture. It replaced the Summer Palace of Empress Elizabeth (by architect Francesko Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1740s) disassembled by order of Emperor Paul I immediately...

New Manege, New Manege Moscow State Exhibition Hall Russia · Moscow

The fate of the building is amazing: built in 1888 in the very centre of Moscow, it hosted the first city power plant for only a short period of time and after that it was "forgotten". The new reincarnation of the building, as an exhibition hall, is full of different kind of events. In the late 19th century, Moscow was a mix of antiquity and ...