ARTS.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING | ||
| Codes UDC | 711.4:719(470.23-25) | Page | 173-195 |
| Title | URBAN-PLANNING ACTIVITIES OF EMPRESS ANNA IOANNOVNA IN SAINT-PETERSBURG: NEED OF ELIMINATING THE CONSEQUENCES OF NUMEROUS FIRES LED TO DEVELOPMENT OF PETER THE GREAT�S HERITAGE. 1736�1740 | ||
| Author 1 | Sementsov Sergey V. | Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering St. Petersburg, 190005, Russian Federation Doctor of Architecture, Professor, Councillor of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) e-mail: s.sementsov@mail.ru |
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| Summary | The paper presents a review of the previously unknown period of Russian history under the reign of Empress Anna Ioannovna characterized with a unique scale of the town planning, architectural and construction transformations which had been carried out after the notorious fires of 1736�1737. These transformations led to a considerable reconstruction of the whole capital city when the city center was transferred from the Vasilyevsky island to the Admiralty district near the Admiralty shipyard fortress. Here, near the future Palace Square, the city center was finally formed starting from 1732 and began to gradually and consistently develop, turning into a huge ensemble of central squares of St. Petersburg. During this period the river Neva became the main compositional element of all town planning system of the Russian capital, having united the initial downtown which had existed up to 1722�1723 (Troitskaya Square on St. Petersburg island), the city center (on Spit of Vasilevsky Island), the district where urban development had begun under Peter the Great in 1722, and, finally, the new center of St. Petersburg (namely, on Admiralty island near the Admiralty in the vicinity of the Winter palace). | ||
| Keywords | St. Petersburg town planning under Empress Anna Ioannovna, regularity, ensemble system, the system of town-planning standards, uniform management of town-planning activities, the Commission on the Saint-Petersburg design activities. | ||