Admiralty (left) and Winter Palace, home of the Hermitage museum (left). The admiralty was built in the early 19th century to host the imperial admiralty board.…
Admiralty spire.
The Bronze Horseman (1768-1782), a statue of Peter the Great by French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet, commissioned Catherine II the Great
Nikolay Przhevalskiy (1839-1888), an explorer who gave his name to a species of wild horses, by Ivan Shreder.