Palace Square

Central city square of St Petersburg, Russia

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Aerial view of the Palace Square, between the Winter Palace (bottom) and the Building of the General Staff (top).

Palace Square (Russian: Дворцо́вая пло́щадь, romanized: Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, IPA: [dvɐrˈtsovəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ]), connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire. Many significant events took place there, including the Bloody Sunday massacre and parts of the October Revolution of 1917. Between 1918 and 1944, it was known as Uritsky Square (Russian: площадь Урицкого), in memory of the assassinated leader of the city's Cheka branch, Moisei Uritsky.

The earliest and most celebrated building on the square, the Baroque white-and-turquoise Winter Palace (as re-built between 1754 and 1762) of the Russian tsars,^[1] gives the square its name. Although the adjacent buildings are designed in the Neoclassical style, they perfectly match the palace in their scale, rhythm, and monumentality.^{[citation needed]} The opposite, southern side of the square was designed in the shape of an arc by George von Velten in the late 18th century. These plans came to fruition half a century later, when Alexander I of Russia (reigned 1801–1825) envisaged the square as a vast monument to the 1812–1814 Russian victories over Napoleon and commissioned Carlo Rossi to design the bow-shaped Empire-style Building of the General Staff (1819–1829), which centers on a double triumphal arch crowned with a Roman quadriga.

In the centre of the square stands the Alexander Column (1830–1834), designed by Auguste de Montferrand. This red granite column (the tallest of its kind in the world) is 47.5 metres high and weighs some 500 tons. It is set so well that it requires no attachment to the base.

The eastern side of the square comprises Alexander Brullov's building of the Guards Corps Headquarters (1837–1843). The western side, however, opens towards Admiralty Square, thus making the Palace Square a vital part of the grand suite of St Petersburg squares.

References

^ "Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia". Retrieved 24 September 2016.

Sources

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V. I. Pilyavsky (Пилявский В. И.) Дворцовая площадь. — Л.; М.: Искусство, 1958 ("Palace Square in Leningrad". Moscow, 1958.)

Pedestrian zones of Saint Petersburg by creation year

Pedestrian
zones

1996	Malaya Konushennaya Street
1998	Malaya Sadovaya Street
1999	Planernaya Street (Avenue to Liquidators Chernobyl Accidents)
2000	near Avtovo Vasya Alekseev Street Litseiskiy pereulok
2001	Gospitalniy pereulok 6-7 Liniya of Vasilievsky Island Finskiy pereulok Bulvar Novatorov On ninth of January Prospekt Tankistov Street Volodarskogo Street Quarter 5 (Rzhevka) Quarter 11 Svoboda Square Rubakina Street Alexandrovskaya Street near Zvyozdnaya near Lomonosovskaya, Matushenko Street Nizhnaya Doroga near Staraya Derevnya Akademitheskiy Prodpekt Arts Square
2002	near Shuvalovo Quarter 18 – 18А Burenin Street Blagodatnaya Street (first stage) Kommunarov Street near Gorkovskaya, Alexander Park Sadovaya Street, Tsarskoye Selo Turku Street Quarter 24 Konushenniy Pereulok Kuznechniy Pereulok Palace Square
2003	Andreevskie Dvoriki: 27, 6 Liniya of Vasilievsky Island 32, 7 Liniya of Vasilievsky Island near Udelnaya Rizhskaya Street Quarter 5 (South-West) Blagodatnaya Street (second stage) Shlisselburgskiy Prospekt near Petrogradskaya, Bezimyanniy Pereulok Klenovaya Alleya Millionnaya Street Griboyedov Canal Quay Bolshaya Konushennaya Street Solyanoy Pereulok
2004	Efimova street near Ozerki Blagodatnaya Street (third stage) Belgradskaya Street (apple orchards)
2009	Blagoeva street