Valery Pikulev
Valery Gulyakin

St. Petersburg Island

Phototravel to History…

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© Valery Pikulev, 2018

© Valery Gulyakin, 2018

The documentary and art photostory about an island, right-bank part of St. Petersburg with which building of the city began. Supplied more than fifty color photos, the story will tell also of the Cabin of Peter the Great constructed in three days and of the first in the city park “for commonalty”, and of the Artillery museum, with the world’s largest collection of weapon, of the cruiser “Aurora” which did to so many noise for the whole world the shot and of the Mosque, largest in Europe…

ISBN 978-5-4485-8714-6

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Contents

1. St. Petersburg Island
2. From the author
3. First inhabited house of St. Petersburg
4. Main square of the Empire
5. Aleksandrovsky park
6. The “Tatar Mosque”
7. Matilda Cshesinscaya’s mansion
8. Cruiser “Aurora” and Nakhimov Naval School
9. Artillery Museum

From the author

Here, and again we met, dear reader! Our first meeting happened as it is remembered, on Trinity Bridge (see Valery Pikulev and Valery Gulyakin’s first book: “Acquaintance to St. Petersburg. Photostory about the Great City”). Then, already as boon companions, “stormed” we bastions of the St. Petersburg fortress (and it already in Valery Pikulev and Valery Gulyakin’s second book: “St. Petersburg fortress. Photostory about the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg). Now acquaintance to a right-bank part of the historic center of St. Petersburg is necessary to us (and it, this “center”, occupying the space more than 30 square kilometers, covers both the Peter and Paul Fortress, and the right coast of Neva, and left… and to the Shooter of huge Vasilyevsky Island… — and all this waits for us still ahead!)

And so far we will go to wander about the enormous island of the delta of the Neva River adjoining from the northeast a small island on which the St. Petersburg (Peter and Paul) fortress was built… and where we already visited last time. We will be helped with this travel by stunning with the skill, fine photos executed by Valery Gulyakin.

Yours faithfully! Valery Pikulev

First inhabited house of St. Petersburg

The island about which the speech will go in a century before last called St. Petersburg, and at the time of Pyotr — at first Koyvisaari, then already, in Russian, Beryozovy, then Gorodovy (City) island. Now Petersburgers call the island the Petrograd Side.

It is the best of all to begin acquaintance to this island, perhaps, with that place where the St. Petersburg’s first house was built… Go, and we will modestly bow to the first inhabited construction of our Great City which so happily remained … — give, approach Cabin of Peter the Great.

So, the city began to be built up, exactly, from here — from a small one-storey timbered “monarchic lodge”. The house was cut down from pine logs by grenadiers of the Semyonovsky regiment in three days, — by May 26, 1703!

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