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Districts, between the Neva and the Fontanka Canal ; in these are situated 

 the Imperial Winter Palace, 450 feet long on the Neva ; in front of it 

 stands the immense column in honor of Alexander I., eighty-four feet high 

 and thirty-six feet thick, wrought of a single mass of granite ; the Hermitage, 

 with a very valuable collection of paintings, and a library of 100,000 volumes; 

 the Marble Palace, built of granite and coated with marble, and with a 

 copper roof; the Palaces of the Grand Prince Michael, and of the Duke of 

 Leuchtenberg ; the immense Navy Yard, with workshops for shipbuilding, 

 magazines, and docks. Some of the other numerous public buildings are the 

 Imperial Foundling Hospital for 5000 children ; the Imperial Public Library, 

 with 450,000 volumes and 18,000 manuscripts ; the Royal stables, with 

 accommodations for 1500 horses ; the Taurian Palace, formerly belonging 

 to Prince Potemkin, with a collection of antiquities ; the large bazaar, 

 Gostinnoi Dwor, with arcades and 170 shops ; the Exchange, on the island 

 of Wasiliefskoi-Ostrow, 330 feet long and 246 feet broad, with forty Doric 

 columns, and a hall 136 feet long; the building of the Academy of Arts; 

 the fine University building ; the Land and Sea Cadet House, the former 

 for 700, the latter for 350 pupils. The principal churches are St. Isaac's 

 Church, built entirely of marble and metal, with 112 granite columns, 56 

 feet high, each one cut from a single block, and with a dome 330 feet high 

 and 100 feet in diameter, one of the largest and most magnificent churches 

 in the world ; the Church of Our Lady of Kasan, with marble floor and fifty- 

 six granite columns, together with an external, semi-circular portico of 130 

 columns ; the Church of St. Nicholas, of two stories, the lower of which 

 can be heated ; St. Peter-Paul's Church, with the imperial vault, in which 

 all the Emperors are entombed, and with a spire, 330 feet high, gilded at the 

 expense of 60,000 ducats ; the Church of the Order of Alexander-Newsky ; 

 also an imperial burying-place, containing the silver tomb of St. Alexander. 

 Of monuments and statues, in addition to those already mentioned, the 

 principal are the bronze equestrian statue of Peter the Great, on a single 

 block of granite, 17 feet high, and weighing 1500 tons; the monuments of 

 the Marshals Suwarrow, Kutusow, and Barclay de Tolly. Public places of 

 resort are the islands of Chreskowsky, Jelagin, and Kammenoi-Ostrow (or 

 Stone Island), with gardens, walks, parks, &c. 



Explanation of the Plan. 





Districts. 



F. 



Liteinoi. 







G. 



Wiborg Side. 



A. 



1. Admiraltv's. 



H. 



Petersburg Side. 



A'. 



2. Admiralty's. 



I. 



Wasiliefskoi-Ostrow. 



A" 



. 3. Admiralty's. 



J. 



Ochta. 



A" ' 4. Admiralty's. 









B. 



Narwa. 



K. 



New Holland. 



C. 



Moscow. 



L. 



Malysowskoi Island, 



D. 



Karetnoi. 



M. 



Fort of St. Peter ai 



E. 



Rozestwenskoi. 

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N. 



Stone Bridge. 



