Estates of the mouth of the Moika River: Elena Gerikhina

The St. Petersburg estate originated in Peter’s time, developed throughout the 18th century, and, finally, developed into a kind of architectural and cultural phenomenon in the 1st half of the 19th century. But from the middle of the 19th century, city estates have lost their significance and gradually began to collapse and disappear.
In ancient panoramic images, St. Petersburg appears before us in the green haze of gardens of distant outskirts. In the city center, also large spaces were occupied by manor gardens. Today they remained units, and all the more interesting it will be the reader with this book to go through the estates of the mouth of the Moika River. Here, at the very mouth of the famous Petersburg river, four wonderful manor complexes were preserved in all its glory: the estate of the count of the Bobrinsky, the manor palaces of the Grand Duchess Ksenia Aleksandrovna and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich and the estate of the Dutch consul G.G. occupies a special place. Van der Kalka, who has become the last, built in the center of St. Petersburg and is an example of high …

Author
Gerikhina Elena Igorevna
Editor
Raikov Gleb P.
Publisher
Reed “Alaborg”, 2011
Series
Northern Palmyra