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23-484: The palace stands on the south side of Saint Isaac's Square , just across the Blue Bridge from Saint Isaac's Cathedral . The site had been previously owned by Zakhar Chernyshev , and contained his home designed by Jean-Baptiste Vallin , which was built between 1762 and 1768. Chernyshev occasionally lent his home to foreign dignitaries visiting the capital, such as Louis Henri, Prince of Condé . From 1825 to 1839,

46-515: A person of similar look and surname was put on the same ballot in order to confuse voters. A remarkable case of Boris Vishnevsky  [ ru ] , a candidate of the Yabloko party, who run in the №2 Saint Petersburg circuit with two nearly indistinguishable doppelgängers alongside was widely reported. Both have changed their legal names to "Boris Vishnevsky" shortly before the elections, and returned to their original names shortly after it

69-475: Is a major city square sprawling between the Mariinsky Palace and Saint Isaac's Cathedral , which separates it from Senate Square . The square is graced by the equestrian Monument to Nicholas I . The Lobanov-Rostovsky House (1817–1820) on the west side of the square was designed by Auguste de Montferrand . It may be described as an Empire style building that has an eight-column portico facing

92-610: Is the regional parliament of Saint Petersburg , a federal subject ( federal city ) of Russia. It was established in 1994, succeeding the Leningrad Council of People's Deputies ( Lensovet ). It is a permanent body, and the supreme and only governing body in St Petersburg. It is located in the Mariinsky Palace . Its powers and duties are defined in the Charter of Saint Petersburg . Saint Petersburg's city duma

115-705: Is the government of St Petersburg, headed by the Governor of St Petersburg, who is the region's highest-ranking official. The Governor is elected for five years by Russian citizens who live in St Petersburg permanently. As of 2022 , the term of office of the incumbent Governor expires in September 2024. While non-systemic opposition was largely eliminated from the elections, those candidates (mostly of systemic opposition ) who were allowed to participate were targeted by various semi-legal intimidation or confusion techniques. The one includes "doppelganger candidates", where

138-567: The Admiralty building . The main porch features the twin statues of Medici lions on granite pedestals; they were made famous by Pushkin in his last long poem, The Bronze Horseman . Nearby is Quarenghi 's Horse Guards' Riding Hall (1804–1807), in part inspired by the Parthenon and flanked by the marble statues of the Dioscuri , by Paolo Triscornia . Opposite the cathedral is

161-747: The Provisional Council soon after. Following the October Revolution , the palace housed various Soviet ministries and academies. During the war with Germany , the palace was converted to a hospital, and was subject to intense bombing. After the war, the palace became the residence of the Petrograd Soviet . During the 1991 coup attempt , the Emergency Committee used the palace as a base of operations. Barricades and heavy fortifications were constructed along

184-422: The 1994 elections with their changing participation threshold), two-round for the first and second convocations and single-round for the third one. On March 11, 2007, the fourth elections were held using a party-list proportional representation system with a 7-percent election threshold and no required threshold of participation for the first time according to the new city law accepted by the third convocation of

207-615: The Chernyshev Palace, as it was then known, was the site of the Nicholas Cavalry College  [ ru ] , where Mikhail Lermontov was known to have studied for two years. The palace was demolished in 1839, and materials were reused in the construction of the Mariinsky Palace. The palace was conceived by Nicholas I as a present to his eldest daughter, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna , on

230-641: The Mariinsky Palace, built in 1829–1844 for Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna . Currently the palace houses the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly . In front of the palace is the 97-metre-wide Blue Bridge , which used to be the widest in Saint Petersburg. Spanning the Moika River , the bridge is usually perceived as the extension of the square, although in fact it forms a separate square, called Mariyinskaya. To

253-521: The State Council was designed by Leon Benois . On April 15, 1902, Socialist Revolutionary Party member Stepan Balmashov assassinated the Minister of Internal Affairs , Dmitry Sipyagin , while the minister was between meetings at the palace. In 1904, painter Ilya Repin completed Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on 7 May 1901 . The painting was commissioned as a commemoration of

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276-521: The State Council's centenary. The canvas is 4 by 8.77 metres (13.1 ft × 28.8 ft), and features 81 historical figures, including Nicholas II . Repin recorded in his journal the painting was on display at the Winter Palace for some time before its installation at Mariinsky Palace. The Russian Provisional Government took full possession of the palace in March 1917, and gave it over to

299-589: The architect Peter Behrens . The building is a reference point in the history of Western architecture, as it was the first specimen of Stripped Classicism , a style that enjoyed immense popularity in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany . 59°55′55″N 30°18′31″E  /  59.93194°N 30.30861°E  / 59.93194; 30.30861 Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg The Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg ( Russian : Законода́тельное собра́ние Санкт-Петербу́рга, ЗакС )

322-505: The assembly in 2006 and new federal legislation. The Assembly is a permanent body, and the supreme and only governing body in St Petersburg. It consists of fifty seats and is elected for a five-year term. Half of this number run in single-mandate constituencies, while the other half are in a single electoral district, with winners elected in proportion to the number of votes cast. The candidates are nominated by electoral associations. The highest executive body of state power in St Petersburg

345-462: The corner of Malaya Morskaya Street is associated with Fyodor Dostoyevsky , who lived there in 1848–1849. At this period, he published his first work of fiction, White Nights . The Russian Institute of Plant Breeding named after Academician Nikolai Vavilov is located in two neo-Renaissance buildings. The institute has a unique collection of 160,000 cultivated plants, which Vavilov collected while travelling in every continent from 1921 to 1940. After

368-517: The end of the war, a journal published in London reported that Vavilov's collection was lost during the Siege of Leningrad . However, the report was false: although many starved to death, the institute's staff would not consume a single grain of rice or potato tuber from the collection. One of the last buildings to be erected on the square was the trapezoidal red-granite German Embassy (1911–12), by

391-521: The interior decoration, with each room designed in a different historic style. The palace is now painted white. The Mariinsky Palace returned to Imperial ownership in 1884, where it remained until 1917. During that period, the palace housed the State Council , Imperial Chancellery , and Committee of Ministers , which after 1905 became the Council of Ministers . The grand hall for the sessions of

414-453: The legislative power body of this federal subject. However, in 2000 the federal legislation changed and the duties were delegated to a separate person to be elected by the regional legislature (not necessarily among its members). From June 13, 2001 until May 18, 2011, Sergey Mironov occupied this position. According to federal legislation from 2005, the governor of Saint Petersburg (as well as heads of other federal subjects of Russia )

437-470: The occasion of her marriage to Maximilian de Beauharnais , Empress Joséphine 's grandson. Although the reddish-brown facade is elaborately rusticated and features corinthian columns arranged in a traditional Neoclassical mode, the whole design was inspired by the 17th-century French Baroque messuages . Other eclectic influences are visible in the Renaissance details of exterior ornamentation, and

460-555: The palace's perimeter, which remained for some time after the coup was suppressed. The palace has been the site of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg since 1994. Saint Isaac%27s Square Saint Isaac's Square or Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad ( Russian : Исаа́киевская пло́щадь ), known as Vorovsky Square ( Russian : Площадь Воровского ) between 1923 and 1944, in Saint Petersburg , Russia

483-572: The right from the bridge is so-called Neptune's Scale, with a granite top. This is a stele which marks water levels during major floods. To the east of the cathedral is the six-storey Hotel Astoria , designed by Fyodor Lidval . It opened in 1912 and was one of the most luxurious hotels in the Russian Empire. Adjacent to the Astoria is the hotel Angleterre , which is remembered as the death place of poet Sergei Yesenin . The building found at

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506-606: Was established in 1786 as part of Catherine II 's reforms on local government. In 1798, Paul I abolished the city duma and replaced it with the Ratusha (Rathaus) until the city duma was restored in 1802. The city duma was again abolished in 1918 with its functions devolved to the Petrograd Soviet . Initially it was the speaker of the Assembly who served as member of the Federation Council of Russia representing

529-531: Was proposed by the President of Russia and approved by the regional legislature. On December 20, 2006, incumbent Valentina Matviyenko was approved as governor. In 2012, following the passage of a new federal law, which restored direct elections of the heads of federal subjects, the city charter was again amended. The first three convocations were formed by a single-member district plurality voting system with at least 20% participation required (except for

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