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The Vasilevsky Island Spit

The promontory in the eastern section of Vasilievsky Island was built to be viewed from the water. Until the mid-19th Century, this was in fact a trading port. With the passing of time, the buildings of the ensemble, designed by Jean Baptiste Toma de Tomon at the beginning of the 19th Century, found themselves occupied by predominantly cultural institutions.
At the center of the ensemble, recalling ancient temples, is the building of the Stock Exchange (1810), with which de Tomon replaced a construction by Quarenghi that had previously stood here. Today, it is home to the Naval Museum. The Rostral Columns (1810s) on the promontory served as lighthouses for the port, receiving their names from the prows of enemy ships which were traditionally used to decorate columns erected to commemorate maritime victories. The sculptures decorating the columns are considered to be embodiments of four key Russian rivers: the Volga, Dnepr, Neva and Volkhov. The symmetrical composition of the Strelka is underlined by the warehouses and customs buildings erected on the Makarov Embankment in 1832 by Ivan Lukini. The ensemble is topped by a tower, mirroring that on the Kunstkammer, which stands close by on University Embankment. The warehouses are now home to the Zoological and Soil Science museums, while the customs house is now the Institute of Russian Literature, or Pushkin House, which contains the manuscripts of great Russian writers.
Along University Embankment, the ensemble is continued by the Kunstkammer, the Academy of Sciences and the Twelve Colleges building. The Kunstkammer (Georg Mattarnovi, 1734) is a masterpiece of Petrine baroque and the oldest Russian museum (now the Ethnographical and Anthropological Museum and the Mikhail Lomonosov Memorial Museum). The apartments of academics and warehousing premises were originally housed in the Academy of Sciences (Giacomo Quarenghi, 1789), built in a late classicist style and decorated with an eight-columned portico of the Ionic order. Inside, on the upper landing of the main staircase, we can see Lomonosov’s mosaic, “The Poltava Battle.” The long Twelve Colleges building, according to the conception of its architect, Domenico Trezini, comprises twelve identical wings – one for each college – linked on the western side by a gallery, the renowned “university corridor.” In the mid-19th Century, these premises were transferred to the University, and they now contain the rector’s office, the geological and biological faculties and the Gorky Library.
At the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, the Otta Clinical Gynecological Institute and the library of the Academy of Sciences were added to the Strelka ensemble.
Essential Information for Visitors

The nearest metro station is Vasileovstrovskaya. See here for information about the Kunstkammer, and here for information about the Central Naval Museum.

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