Tag: Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad
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St. Isaac’s Cathedral: Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad (St. Isaac’s Square)
Petersburg. View of St. Isaac’s Cathedral and Senate Square. Lithograph. A. Duran. 1845 The cathedral is an outstanding monument of the architecture of the first half of the 19th century. 440,000 builders worked on it over a period of forty years, from 1818 to 1858. The author of the original design was A. Montferrand; the…