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Slide1
The Spit of
Vasilievsky
(
Bazil
) IslandSlide2
Peter the 1st wanted the new capital to become a sea fortress and at the same time a trading port. Because of the shoal water, the port couldn’t be developed on the Petrogradskaya
Side so it was decided to move it to the
Vasilievsky Island. Slide3
Vasilievsky Island is the largest of the islands in the Neva delta. The Neva breaks into two arms here: The
Big Neva and the Little Neva. Slide4
The eastern tip of Vasilievsky Island which divides a branch from mainstream of the Neva is called
the Spit of
Vasilievsky Island. Slide5
There was a port until 1837 and for a long time this was one of the busiest parts of the city. The commercial port was situated here till the middle of the 19
th
century. That is why this site was chosen for the building of the Stock Exchange.Slide6
The Stock-Exchange was designed by the French architect Jean Francois
Thomas de
Thomon
with the assistance of
Andreyan
Zakharov
.
The building was finished in 1816.Slide7
This is the beautiful building with the colonnade and looks like as an ancient
Greek Temple.Slide8
The main volume was skirted with 44 Doric columns spaced along its perimeter. Above them were placed sculptural groups personifying the prosperity of the Russian
Navy and
Trade.Slide9
Outstanding architects took part in the creating of beautiful ensemble of the Spit of Bazil Island.The project of the new
ensemble
included the Stock Exchange, Rostral columns and granite embankment. Slide10
The Stock Exchange houses the Central Naval Museum
. It was founded in 1709 by order of Peter I. The collection moved here from the Admiralty building in 1939.
The exhibition hall contains over 800,000 items from the Middle Ages to modern times.Slide11
At the both sides of this building there were the warehouses and the Customs House. They were designed by the architect
Giovanni
Lucini.Slide12
Two warehouses were built symmetrically between 1826 and 1832. The goods delivered to the port were stored there.
The warehouses now accommodate the
Zoological Institute, the Zoological Museum and the Central Soil Science Museum.Slide13
At the same time (1829-1832) as the warehouses the building of the
Customs
was erected.
Its pediment is crowned with the figures of
Mercury
– the God of trade,
Neptune
– the god of navigation and
Ceres
– the goddess of the harvest
.Slide14
Now the former Customs House is occupied by the Institute of Russian Literature known as the
Pushkin House
.Slide15
The Spit is decorated with two colums or Rostral
Columns, almost
32 metres high. Slide16
The tradition comes from Ancient Greece and Rome where rostral columns
used to be erected to commemorate naval victories and the shafts of the columns were adorned with prows of captured ships. Slide17
On the granite pediments at the feet of the columns are placed seated
stone figures
personifying the rivers Volga, Neva, Volkhov and the Dnieper. Slide18
Volkhov
NevaSlide19
Dnieper
VolgaSlide20
These figures were designed by the sculptors G.Thibault
and
I.Camberlain.Slide21
The Rostral Columns were installed between 1805 and 1810. They served as light-houses
for ships going up the Neva.
Nowadays on the top there are gas-torches. They are lighted up on festivals.