Fontanka - a river in St. Petersburg, but so is called in the people and its embankment. Now the Fontanka flows through the center of the city, but it remains the border of the ceremonial building of St. Petersburg. Through the river 15 bridges are transferred, seven of them are of the same type - lifting bridges. Walking along the banks of the Fontanka River, you can see many wonderful historical places and sights of St. Petersburg.

Noteworthy places of Fontanka

• In the place where Fontanka flows from the Neva, by the order of Peter I the Summer Garden was laid and later the Summer Palace was built - the very first palace of St. Petersburg

• On the same side of the river, downstream is the Mikhailovsky Castle, the palace of Paul I, in which the emperor was strangled by conspirators

• Fontanka, 3: The circus is one of the oldest in the country, opened in 1877

• Monument to Chizhiku-Pyzhik on Fontanka opposite house 12, next to the 1st Engineering Bridge - one from the smallest monuments in the city

• Fontanka, 20: Golitsyn's house, Pushkin often visited Pushkin's salon in the salon of Princess Golitsyna, in which she was passionately in love

• Fontanka, 21: Shuvalov Palace - a fine example of Elizabethan baroque

• Fontanka , 30: Profitable house of the architect Starov, built, among other things, the Tauride Palace, the Trinity Cathedral in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, the Sophia Cathedral near Tsarskoe Selo, the palace ensemble in Bogoroditsk (Tula region)

• Fontanka, 31: "His Imperial Office Majesty "(1803-1805, architect. D. Quarenghi; 1809-1811, architect. Luigi Ruska)

• Fontanka, 34: Sheremetev Palace, which belonged to five generations of the Count's branch of the Sheremetev family, and the Anna Akhmatova Museum

• Anichkov Palace, at the intersection with Nevsky Prospekt, is the Anichkov Palace, the oldest building on the avenue. At the entrance to the palace from the Fontanka, a channel was dug, ending with a small harbor, and then fell asleep

• Fontanka, 42: Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace - new baroque construction

• Fontanka 54: Profit House Count Mikhail Pavlovich Tolstoy executed in style northern modern. At different times there lived a writer-satirist A. Averchenko, writer A. Kuprin, entrepreneur S. Kalmanovich

• Fontanka, 65: BDT im. Tovstonogov - the first "proletarian" theater

• Fontanka, 115: The Yusupov Palace is a wonderful example of the era of classicism

• Fontanka 122: Serebryakov Apartment house, where from 1913 to 1917 the great Russian composer lived and worked Sergei Prokofiev

• Fontanka , 199: House-iron (1911-1912, architect Shaub), one of the walls of this house a little wider than the width of the standard window

Fontanka, panorama

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