First Engineer Bridge
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The First Engineer Bridge (
The original small wooden bridge, called the Summer Bridge and rumored to have been designed by the architect
Engineer Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786-1838) (Пётр Петрович Базен) designed and constructed the bridge in a similar fashion to the Big Stables Bridge (Bolshoy Konyushenny Bridge), a bridge located further west on the Moika River, using pre-fabricated hollow wedges. Bazaine also managed to reduce the use of expensive cast-iron in the bridge's construction to one-third of the total mass of the bridge, by innovatively designing the sidewalks with the use of special bracket supports.
The siding is decorated in
Intricately inscribed plaques with grooves extend from the figures on frieze planes, in the style of Doric
In 1994, a small bronze statue of Chizhik-Pyzhik was installed on a ledge in the embankment, opposite the Imperial School of Jurisprudence near the First Engineer Bridge. The statue has since been repeatedly stolen.
See also
- Bridges in Saint Petersburg
- List of bridges in Saint Petersburg
References
- Bunin, Michail Samoylovich Mosty Leningrada : Ocerky istory i architektury mostov Peterburga-Petrograda-Leningrada, Leningrad: Strojizdat, 1986.
- Novikov, Yuriy Vladimirovich et al., Mosty i naberezhnye Leningrada, Saint Petersburg (Russia): Lenizdat, ISBN 5-289-00690-7
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