There is something in the old pictures so … alluring. Like a window to another world, like a time machine. Especially looking at pictures of familiar places or people, events, circumstances.
This is what Peter was like … What year is it about?
Nevsky Prospect. Konka (horse-drawn city road):
Palace Square. Alexandrian column
View of the Alexander Garden in front of the main facade of the Admiralty:
Promotional video:
Alexandrinsky Theater:
Monument to Catherine II on Ostrovsky Square in front of the Alexandrinsky Theater:
View from St. Isaac's Cathedral to Nikolaevskaya Square (now St. Isaac's Square):
Monument to Nicholas I on Nikolaevskaya Square (now Isaakievskaya Square):
Saint Isaac's Cathedral:
The Bronze Horseman on pl. Peter the Great (now Senate Square):
Kazan Cathedral:
Chapel at the gates of the Summer Garden:
Nevsky Prospect:
Temporary Palace Bridge:
Pavlovsk Palace:
Tsaritsyn pavilion in Peterhof:
Peterhof. Sea channel connecting the Grand Cascade with the Gulf of Finland:
Peterhof. View of the Lower Park from the side of the palace:
Peterhof:
Peterhof. Great cascade:
The Grotto Pavilion in the Catherine Park of Tsarskoe Selo:
Cameron Gallery in Tsarskoe Selo:
Peter and Paul Cathedral:
Nikolsky Naval Cathedral:
Lobanov-Rostovsky House. View of the Admiralty:
Znamenskaya Square (now Vosstaniya Square):
Atlantes of the New Hermitage:
Spit of Vasilyevsky Island:
View of the building of the Academy of Arts:
Anichkov bridge over the Fontanka. Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace:
Anichkov bridge:
Novo-Alexandrovsky market:
Janitors on Nevsky: