travel russia st petersburg st isaac's square
"Saint Isaac's Square or Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad; known as "Vorovsky Square" between 1923 and 1944)
in Saint Petersburg is a major city square sprawling between
the Mariinsky Palace and Saint Isaac's Cathedral, which separates it from Decembrists Square.
The square is graced by the equestrian Monument to Nicholas I"
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Saint Isaac's Cathedral or Isaakievskiy Sobor in Saint Petersburg is the largest cathedral
in the city and was the largest church in Russia when it was built (101.5 meters high).
It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great who had been born on the feast day of that saint."
"The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian ruler Nicholas I was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856.
The statue faces Saint Isaac's Cathedral, with the horse's posterior turned to the Mariinsky Palace of Nicholas's daughter, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of Russia.
This was said to have caused the Grand Duchess considerable discomfort."
St. Isaac's Square, St. Petersburg, Russia (2009).
Opposite the cathedral is the Mariinsky Palace, built in 1829-1844 for Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna.
Currently the palace houses the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
In front of the palace is the 97-metre-wide Blue Bridge, which used to be the widest in Saint Petersburg.
Spanning the Moika River, the bridge is usually perceived as the extension of the square, although in fact it forms a
separate square, called Mariyinskaya.
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Vendors, St. Isaac's Square, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
Lynn and I, St. Isaac's Square, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
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