The Admiralty building is the former headquarters of the Admiralty Board and the Imperial Russian Navy in Central St. Petersburg , Russia and the current headquarters of the Russian Navy .
6-666: 59°56′13″N 30°18′34″E / 59.93694°N 30.30944°E / 59.93694; 30.30944 The Alexander Garden (Александровский сад) lies along the south and west façades of the Russian Admiralty in St. Petersburg , parallel to the Neva River and Admiralty Quay , extending from Palace Square in the east to St. Isaac's Cathedral in the west. The English park is named after Alexander II of Russia who ordered some 52 species of trees to be planted there. It
12-744: The Admiralty tower to Nevsky Avenue , Voznesensky Avenue and Gorokhovaya Street were designed by Ivan Fomin in 1923. This arrangement made the Admiralty Tower the focal point of the entire downtown. By contrast with the Summer Garden , the Alexander Garden originally had no statuary. It was not until 1833 that Paolo Triscorni 's marble copies of the Farnese Hercules and Farnese Flora appeared. A fountain
18-521: The shape of a small sail warship ( Korablik ), is one of the city's most conspicuous landmarks and the focal point of old St. Petersburg's three main streets - Nevsky Prospect , Gorokhovaya Street , and Voznesensky Avenue - underscoring the importance Peter I placed on Russia's Navy. Until merger and relocation to the town of Pushkin in 1998 the building housed one of the Soviet and Russian naval engineering schools [ ru ] which since 1927
24-547: The tsar's maritime ambitions. The original design was a fortified shipyard which was later surrounded by five bastions and further protected by a moat. The Empire Style edifice visible today lining the Admiralty Quay was constructed to Andreyan Zakharov 's design between 1806 and 1823. Located at the western end of the Nevsky Prospekt , The Admiralty with its gilded spire topped by a golden weather-vane in
30-750: Was formerly known as the Admiralty Boulevard, the Admiralty Meadow, and the Labourers Garden. The garden was designed by Luigi Rusca in 1805. William Gould, an English-born gardener, was hired to raze the southern ramparts of the Admiralty Fortress, replacing them with four lime-tree alleys. The moat of the fortress was filled in 1819, making room for additional lanes. The garden was a traditional place for Easter and Maslenitsa revels. Three lanes leading from
36-430: Was installed in front of the Admiralty tower in 1879. The Nikolai Przhevalsky monument and four busts ( Mikhail Glinka , by Vladimir Pashchenko, and three by Vasily Kreitan ; namely Nikolai Gogol , Mikhail Lermontov and Vasily Zhukovsky ) date from the 1890s. Chancellor Gorchakov 's statue was added in 1998. Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg The edifice was rebuilt in the nineteenth century to support
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