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Здание Двенадцати коллегий

Двенадцать корпусов, двенадцать входов, двенадцать отдельных крыш — и ни одного прохода между ними. Первые сто лет пройти это здание насквозь было невозможно.

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Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Здание Двенадцати коллегий

Why it is worth the detour

Самое длинное здание петровского Петербурга, повёрнутое торцом к Неве

Дом правительства петровской России: двенадцать одинаковых корпусов для двенадцати коллегий-министерств. Сегодня — главное здание Санкт-Петербургского университета с легендарным четырёхсотметровым коридором.

The people behind this address

Documented connections, not celebrity trivia.

  • Peter the Great

    Created here

    Commissioned the Twelve Collegia for the new government bodies.

  • Mikhail Lomonosov

    Studied here

    Central figure of the Academic University / Academy of Sciences at the Twelve Collegia.

  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Lived here

    Lived and worked 1866–1890 in the university apartment inside the Twelve Collegia (now the Mendeleev Museum-Archive), where he developed the periodic law and wrote Principles of Chemistry.

  • Ayn Rand

    Studied here

    Studied at Petrograd State University (Twelve Collegia) before emigrating.

  • Edgar de Wahl

    Studied here

    Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (Twelve Collegia; Wikidata P69).

  • Ivan Pavlov

    Studied here

    Studied natural sciences at Saint Petersburg University (Twelve Collegia) 1870–1875, graduating as Candidate of Natural Sciences before the Military Medical Academy.

  • Jaan Teemant

    Studied here

    Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (Twelve Collegia; Wikidata P69).

  • Otto Strandman

    Studied here

    Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (Twelve Collegia; Wikidata P69).

  • Domenico Trezzini

    Created here

    Designed the Twelve Collegia building.

  • Nicholas Roerich

    Studied here

    Studied law at Saint Petersburg University (Twelve Collegia) 1893–98 while also at the Academy of Arts.

  • Olga Berggolts

    Studied here

    Graduated from the philological faculty of Leningrad University in 1930 (university headquarters in the Twelve Collegia).

  • Balys Sruoga

    Studied here

    Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (Twelve Collegia; Wikidata P69).

  • Igor Grabar

    Studied here

    Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (Twelve Collegia; Wikidata P69).

  • Rainis

    Studied here

    Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (Twelve Collegia; Wikidata P69).

  • Veniamin Kaverin

    Studied here

    Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (Twelve Collegia; Wikidata P69).

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

  • 600 m

    Румянцевский обелиск

    Обелиск дважды уступал место другим памятникам, а на третьем адресе оказался во дворе кадетского корпуса, откуда Румянцева когда-то выставили за леность и шалости.

  • 1.0 km

    Аптека Пеля и башня грифонов

    Кирпичи башни во дворе пронумерованы, и весь город уверен, что это шифр. Автор шифра известен по имени, ставил его при свидетелях и жив до сих пор.

  • 1.2 km

    New Holland Island

  • 1.5 km

    Potseluev Bridge

  • 2.1 km

    Никольский морской собор

    Голубой с золотом, лёгкий, почти праздничный — а это самый скорбный собор города: здесь веками отпевали моряков, которые не вернулись.

  • 2.1 km

    Chizhik-Pyzhik Monument

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