🏛 Senate and Synod Building

Сенатская пл., 1–3

Two buildings by Rossi joined by an arch over Galernaya, with colonnades and sculptures on the façade.

The buildings were built in 1829–1834 under Alexander Staubert; this was Carlo Rossi's last major project.
The Senate was laid down on 24 August 1829 and the Synod in 1830; before that both bodies sat in the Twelve Colleges building.
The site first held Prince Menshikov's half-timbered house, later the house of Chancellor Bestuzhev-Ryumin.
From 1925 to 2006 the Russian State Historical Archive was kept here.
Since 2008 the Constitutional Court has worked in the former Senate, and since 2009 the Yeltsin Presidential Library has been in the Synod.

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