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      🏛 St Isaac's Cathedral and its colonnade

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      In summer the colonnade is also open at night

      St Isaac's Cathedral and its colonnade
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      • The cathedral is consecrated in the name of St Isaac of Dalmatia because Peter I was born on his feast day, 30 May.
      • According to legend, Montferrand was told he would die right after finishing the cathedral, so the construction dragged on for 40 years, from 1818 to 1858.
      • Each 17-metre, 114-tonne column was raised into place in 40–45 minutes.
      • During the fire-gilding of the dome in 1838–1841, 60 craftsmen died of mercury vapour poisoning.
      • From 1931 to 1986 a Foucault pendulum on a 98-metre cable swung in the cathedral, showing the rotation of the Earth.
      • The cathedral's dome was the third in the world built on a metal frame.
      • The white marble iconostasis is decorated with malachite and Badakhshan lapis lazuli.

      Part of these routes

      • St Isaac’s, the Bronze Horseman and Bolshaya Morskaya
      • Petersburg from above: colonnade and terraces
      • Petersburg in one day: the essentials
      • Kolomna and an evening at the Mariinsky
      • Petersburg from above: colonnade, bell tower, rooftop
      • St Isaac's, Senate Square and the Moika: the long loop
      • The Moika from the Yusupov Palace: the long route
      • The Moika and Fontanka in lights
      • The colonnade at sunset and New Holland's lights
      • The Admiralty, the Bronze Horseman and the Colonnade
      • St Isaac's Colonnade, Stroganov Palace and Singing Bridge

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