Saint Isaac's Square
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Saint Isaac's Square or Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad (
The
Opposite the
To the east of the cathedral is the six-storey
The Russian Institute of Plant Breeding named after Academician Nikolai Vavilov is located in two neo-Renaissance buildings. The institute has a unique collection of 160,000 cultivated plants, which Vavilov collected while travelling in every continent from 1921 to 1940. After the end of the war, a journal published in London reported that Vavilov's collection was lost during the Siege of Leningrad. However, the report was false: although many starved to death, the institute's staff would not consume a single grain of rice or potato tuber from the collection.[3]
One of the last buildings to be erected on the square was the trapezoidal red-granite
See also
References
- ISBN 90-5699-537-5. pp. 217–218.
- ^ Corner of Malaya Morskaya Street, 23 and Voznesensky avenue, 8
- ^ Online guide to St. Petersburg Archived 2007-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 2004, article "History of Western architecture".
External links
- Media related to St Isaac's Square at Wikimedia Commons
- Article in the Enciclopaedia of Saint Petersburg