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      🏛 National Library of Russia (historic building)

      Санкт-Петербург, Садовая ул., 18

      Russia's first public library (1814): statues of ancient thinkers on the façade, and inside Voltaire's Library and the Faust Cabinet.

      National Library of Russia (historic building)
      © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
      • Yegor Sokolov's design for the building was approved by Catherine II in 1795; it took about 15 years to build.
      • The core of the foreign collection was the library of the Załuski brothers.
      • In its first year 329 readers registered at the library.
      • Ivan Krylov, Nikolai Gnedich, Konstantin Batyushkov and Anton Delvig worked at the library.
      • The wing facing the Catherine Garden was built by Carlo Rossi in 1832–1835.
      • Before the revolution the staff included a dachshund keeper: at night the dachshunds caught rats, and now the library is home to a "cat headquarters".

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      • Rossi and the Alexandrinsky: a theatre day
      • Sadovaya in lights: from the Chizhik to Sennaya
      • Fabergé, Anichkov Palace and Catherine Garden
      • A lit-up castle, the Public Library and the Gostiny arcades

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