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      🏛 Twelve Collegia (St Petersburg State University)

      Университетская наб., 7–9

      A long red-and-white Petrine building across Vasilyevsky Island — the university's main building.

      Twelve Collegia (St Petersburg State University)
      © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
      Twelve Collegia (St Petersburg State University)
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • Construction began in 1722: the overall design is by Domenico Trezzini, the upper floors by Theodor Schwertfeger.
      • It is the largest monument of Petrine Baroque: 12 identical three-storey sections, one per collegium, the prototype of a ministry.
      • The first session of the collegia in the new building was held in 1732.
      • In 1830 the whole building was handed over to St Petersburg University.
      • Only the Petrovsky Hall has kept its authentic 1735–1736 finish — with the monograms of Peter I and Anna Ioannovna.
      • Scenes of Georgy Danelia's “Autumn Marathon” (1979) were shot here.

      Part of these routes

      • Vasilyevsky Spit: Kunstkamera and sphinxes
      • Two banks of the Neva: from Petrogradka to Kolomna
      • The Strelka and Vasilyevsky: a big day with kids
      • Vasilyevsky at dusk: the Strelka, sphinxes, the Lines
      • Vasilyevsky Strelka: the Rostral Columns at night
      • The Spit, the Twelve Collegia and Menshikov Palace

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