

Panoramas by Andrew Varlamov Silver


In the shadow of Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute

The church was designed in the then fashionable Palladian style by Baldassare Longhena ( www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldassare_Longhena ), a pupil...
Spit of Vasilievsky Island. View from the roof. North corner

The yellow tower of neo-Palladian Customs House ( www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkin_House ), built after Giovanni Luchini's designs in 1829-32, is...
Metro station ”Kirovsky Zavod” (1955)

Metro station "Kirovsky Zavod" was opened on November 15, 1955. It is a deep-laid station of columnar type (the depth is 50 m). Underground part of...
Canal Corsini

In 1738, the Corsini Canal (named after Pope Clement XII), connecting Ravenna to the sea,(11 km., still the biggest artificial canal in Italy's...
Citadel of Mystras' fortress

Mystras was a fortified town in Morea (the medieval Peloponnese), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta. In 1989 the ruins, including the fortress,...
Two churches in Myachino

This is far end of Voskresenskaya sloboda near Myachino lake in Veliky Novgorod. Sloboda ( www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloboda ) was located around...
New Holland Arch (1765)

Cold weather and thick ice let us approach this artifical island in the heart of Saint-Petersburg. New Holland Island was created in 1720, when the...
Equestrian Peter the Great in front of St Michael's Castle

The equestrian statue had been designed during Peter the Great's lifetime and later, with the casting completed in 1747 by architect Bartolomeo...
Staircase in the House of Artists (3rd floor)

The stair landing is overcrowded by works of Andrei Gennadiev from the next workshop.
Metro station ”Krestovsky island”

"Krestovsky island" is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint-Petersburg Metro. It opened on September 3, 1999. The subjects of...
Sergiyevskaya gate church of Boris and Gleb Monastery (1679)

It is south entrance into Boris and Gleb Monastery. Monochrome photography by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (...
Whitestone gates in Neo-Russian style

Feodorovsky Settlement is an architectural ensemble of the town of Pushkin ( www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsarskoe_Selo ), to the north-west from the...
Mausoleum of Theodoric, Ravenna (520 A.D.)

This impressive monument is located approximately one kilometer from the centre of Ravenna, beyond the ancient town walls, in an area used as a...