Baltic Sea · Russia · Peterhof
In 1714, Peter the Great decided to build a country residence that would match the French Versailles in its sumptuousness. Preserved sketches of the tsar, his decrees and notes on documents allow us to state that the founder of Peterhof himself developed the general idea of the ensemble's layout as well as the detailed design of some elements of ar...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
Construction of the Peter and Paul Fortress (the Fortress, for short), which laid the foundation of Saint Petersburg, started on 16th May 1703. The Fortress was built on the Zayachy Island (750 meter [2460 feet] long and 400 meter [1310 feet] wide). During the 1700–1721 Great Northern War, when the Russian state was waging a difficult struggle agai...
Ukraine · Lviv
In 1966, the Museum of the History of Pharmaceutics was established on the base of an old pharmacy opened as early as 1732 г. by Notorp, military pharmacist. In 1972, the Museum was awarded the title of National.
The ancient interior of the pharmacy's sales area has been preserved. The ceiling painted with polychrome in the early 19th century by...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
The Kiev Planetarium (the Planetarium, for short) at the Knowledge Society of Ukraine was founded in 1952 by the world-famous astronomer Sergey Vsekhsvyatsky.
On 1st January 1952, the Planetarium opened its doors to everybody interested in learning the mysteries of the Universe.
The Planetarium has been very successful from the very day of it...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Pushkin Apartment Museum on the Moika River is a memorial museum of the poet dedicated to the last period of his life and oeuvre. The Museum is situated in one of the oldest stone buildings of St. Petersburg in 12 Moika River Embankment. The building had belonged to the Volkonsky ducal family since 1806.
This is the house where Pushkin and h...
Russia · Moscow
Laying of the Museum foundation stone took place on the 17th of August, 1898. Many years of huge and creative work preceded this remarkable event. The Moscow Duma had passed the territory of the former Kolymazhny Court adjacent to the Kremlin for the construction by the time of the solemn ceremony of stone laying in the presence of Emperor Nikolas ...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Residence of Rumyantsev is a unique monument of enormous historical and cultural value. The first stone house appeared in this section of the Neva embankment in the 1740s, and it belonged to the Golitsyn dukes.
In 1802, the mansion was acquired by Count Nikolay Rumyantsev (1754–1826), the chancellor of the Russian Empire, an illuminator, and...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Pushkin
What makes this exhibition especially valuable is the fact that it occupies the historical building of the former Imperial Duty Stables, which was built in 1824 to a design by the architects Vasily Stasov and Smaragd Shustov.
The exhibition presents carriages created by famous Russian and Western European masters in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Ukraine · Lviv
The Rusalka Dnistrova Museum is a branch of Lviv Art Gallery that is situated in the Tower of the Holy Spirit, a monument of the 18th century architecture.
The exhibitions of the museum introduce the original copy of the Rusalka Dnistrova (the Dniester Mermaid) almanac and the history of its conception and publishing to visitors....
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The building of the Academy of Arts (the Academy, for short) was constructed in 1764 to 1788 to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe (also involving Aleksandr Kokorinov). Three wooden houses having various owners were situated in this section of the Vasilievsky Island, between the 3rd Liniya Street and 4th Liniya Street. In 1759, by order o...
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