The Palace Embankment can be called one of the most beautiful and famous embankments of St. Petersburg. It is here that the famous sights of the Northern Capital are located: the Hermitage, the Winter Palace, the Russian Museum, the House of Scientists and many others. This street offers an excellent view of the Spit of Vasilievsky Island and the Peter and Paul Fortress. The Palace Embankment is located on the left bank of the Neva from the Kutuzov Embankment and to the Admiralteiskaya Embankment. Its length is 1300 meters.
The Palace Embankment began to be built up quite early - at the very beginning of the 18th century. The architectural tone of the buildings was set by the summer and winter residences of Peter I. People close to the tsar also began to build their houses on this land. In 1705 the first wooden house of General-Admiral Fyodor Apraksin appeared. The building identified the red line of the street, and all other buildings began to be constructed according to this line.
The Palace Embankment had many names: Cash Line, Embankment Upper Stone Line, Millionnaya. Often it was called Postova because of the fact that the Post Court was located here. In 1762, architect Rastrelli built here the royal residence - the Winter Palace. After that, the embankment, the square and the bridge, located nearby, began to be called palace. Even under Soviet rule, the street was renamed the quay of the Ninth of January. But in 1944, the old name was returned to her.
Gradually, the embankment was getting better and better: it was dressed in granite and made convenient descents to the river . By the way, until the middle of the 18th century, all the Petersburg embankments were wooden . Dvortsovaya the embankment became the first stone street . Nevertheless in the 1920s the territory around the Winter Palace remained untroubled . Here the construction of the General Staff building was planned, and therefore there were working materials, piles of sand and boards everywhere, as well as all kinds of frets and barns . Nicholas I commissioned the architect Carlo Rossi bring it in order . Rossi has developed a draft of a beautiful descent to Neva, decorated with sculptures of lions and Dioscuri . But the emperor is not impressed with the sculptures of young men, restraining their horses, so they were replaced by porphyry vases . Subsequently, in connection with the construction of the Palace of the bridge pier with lions moved to the Admiralty embankment .
Palace embankment always been famous for the fact that here lived famous and influential people: the Romanov dynasty, poet Ivan Krylov, Count Sergei Itte.
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| Palace embankment House of scientists, Palace embankment |
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| Winter Palace, Dvortsovaya Embankment |
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| Palace Embankment Marble Palace, Palace Embankment |
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| Palace embankment Hermitage theater, the Palace embankment |