Chesme Church in St. Petersburg, Russia
The Chesme Church full name Church of Saint John the Baptist
at Chesme Palace, Russian also called the Church of the Nativity of St. John
the Baptist, is a small Russian Orthodox church at 12 Lensoveta Street, in
Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built by the Russian court architect Yury
Felten in 1780, at the direction of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.
A
memorial church, it was erected adjacent to the Chesme Palace between Saint
Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo to commemorate the anniversary of Russia's 1770
victory over Turkish forces in Chesme Bay (Turkish: Çeşme) in the Aegean Sea
during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. Sources
Novodevichy Convent, Moscow, Russia
Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky
Monastery, Russian is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Its name,
sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, was devised to differ from
an ancient maidens' convent within the Moscow Kremlin. Unlike other Moscow
cloisters, it has remained virtually intact since the 17th century. In 2004, it
was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Novodevichy Convent was founded in 1524 by Grand Prince
Vasili III in commemoration of the conquest of Smolensk in 1514. It was built
as a fortress at a curve of the Moskva River and became an important part of
the southern defensive belt of the capital, which had already included a number
of other monasteries. Upon its founding, the Novodevichy Convent was granted
3,000 rubles and the villages of Akhabinevo and Troparevo. Sources
Royal Palace and Park in Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia
Petergof known as Petrodvorets from 1944 to 1997, is a
municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of St.
Petersburg, located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. Population:
73,199 (2010 Census); 64,791 (2002 Census); 81,525 (1989 Census).
The town hosts one of two campuses of Saint Petersburg State
University and the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, one of the leading Russian watch
manufactures. A series of palaces and gardens, laid out on the orders of Peter
the Great, and sometimes called the "Russian Versailles", is also
situated there. Sources
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