Его выкрашенный золотом шпиль достигает высоты 123 метров (404 фута), а на его вершине изображен ангел, держащий крест. Этот ангел — один из самых важных символов Санкт-Петербурга.
Когда царь Петр Великий посетил Нидерланды в 1698 году, он услышал идеально настроенные карильоны Гемони в Амстердаме и Лейдене, поющие все 24 часа в сутки, автоматически каждые четверть часа. Позже, в 1717 году, он посетил Фландрию инкогнито и поднялся на башню собора Богоматери в Антверпене, где, должно быть, услышал один из двух гемониевых карильонов в одной из башен этого собора. На него произвело впечатление звучание карильона, и он захотел такой же для своего нового собора в Санкт-Петербурге. Поэтому он заказал его в 1720 году в Нидерландах. … В 1756 году башня сгорела дотла после грозы. …
Нынешний Петропавловский карильон — подарок Санкт-Петербургу от правительства Фландрии и более чем 350 спонсоров из разных стран. Взнос был представлен от имени Ее Величества королевы Бельгии Фабиолы, Бельгийского фонда короля Будевейна, правительства провинции Фландрия, властей различных фламандских городов и сообществ, включая предприятия и финансовые учреждения, культурные сообщества, школы и университеты, а также простых граждан Бельгии, России и других стран., Англия, Германия, Литва, Нидерланды, Новая Зеландия, Португалия, США и Япония.
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The Peter and Paul Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg, built between 1712 and 1733 on Zayachy (Hare) Island along the Neva River. Both the cathedral and the fortress were originally built under Peter the Great and designed by Domenico Trezzini. The cathedral"s bell tower is the world"s tallest Orthodox bell tower. Since the belfry is not standalone, but an integral part of the main building, the cathedral is sometimes considered the highest Orthodox Church in the world.
The current building, the first stone church in St. Petersburg, was designed by Trezzini and built between 1712 and 1733. Its gold-painted spire reaches a height of 123 metres (404 ft) and features at its top an angel holding a cross. This angel is one of the most important symbols of St. Petersburg.
The cathedral was closed in 1919 and turned into a museum in 1924. It is still officially a museum; religious services, however, resumed in 2000.
When Tsar Peter the Great visited the Netherlands in 1698, he heard the perfect tuned Hemony carillons in Amsterdam and Leiden singing all 24 hours of the day, every quarter of an hour automatically. Later in 1717 he visited Flanders incognito and climbed the tower of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, where he must have heard one of the two Hemony carillons in one of the towers of this cathedral. He was impressed by the sound of a carillon and wanted one like these for his new cathedral in St. Petersburg. So he ordered it in 1720 from the Netherlands. In Amsterdam the only bellfounder in that time was Jan Albert de Grave. He was married to the widow of Claude Fremy. This Claude Fremy was a pupil of Hemony. So Jan Albert de Grave was presumably the bellfounder who made these bells. Some years later he also made a carillon for Potsdam. The people in St. Petersburg could only listen to this well-tuned instrument for a short time. In 1756 the tower burned down after a thunderstorm. …
The current Peter and Paul carillon is a gift to St. Petersburg from the Government of Flanders, and more than 350 sponsors from different countries. The contribution was presented in the name of Her Majesty Queen Fabiola of Belgium, the Belgian King Boudewijn Fund, the Government of the Province of Flanders, the authorities of various Flemish cities and communities, including businesses, and financial institutions, cultural communities, schools and universities, and also ordinary citizens of Belgium, Russia, England, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, the USA and Japan. Source Wikipedia.
The first two tiers are distributed in breadth and thus form a smooth transition from the main building of the cathedral to the high tower. The third tier easily rushes up, it is crowned with a gilded octagonal roof with four round windows in massive white stone frames. Above the roof is a slender and elegant octagonal drum with narrow vertical openings. Above it is a high, also octagonal, golden crown, and on it, instead of the traditional cross, there is a thin golden turret that serves as the base of a 40–meter spire. At the very top there is a figure of an angel with a cross in his hands (the height of the cross is about 6.5 meters). The height of the figure is 3.2 meters, the wingspan is 3.8 meters, and the weight is about 250 kg. Source Wikipedia (Russian version)
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Петропавловская крепость — крепость в Санкт-Петербурге, расположенная на Заячьем острове, историческое ядро города. Официальное название — Санкт-Петербургская, в 1914–1917 годах — Петроградская крепость. Крепость была заложена 16 (27) мая 1703 года по совместному плану Петра I и французского инженера Ламбера: 6 бастионов, соединённых куртинами, 2 равелина, кронверк (первоначально дерево-земляные, в 1730-е-1740-е и 1780-е годы одеты камнем). Петропавловская крепость никогда не принимала непосредственного участия в военных действиях. С самого начала своего существования она стала использоваться в качестве главной политической тюрьмы России. Источник Википедия.
Построенный в разгар Северной войны для защиты предполагаемой столицы от опасной шведской контратаки, форт так и не выполнил своего военного назначения. В течение года цитадель была достроена шестью бастионами из земли и дерева, а с 1706 по 1740 год она была перестроена из камня. Примерно с 1720 года форт служил базой для городского гарнизона, а также тюрьмой для высокопоставленных или политических заключенных. Трубецкой бастион, перестроенный в 1870-х годах, стал главным тюремным блоком. Источник Википедия (английский вариант).
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The Peter and Paul Fortress (Russian: Петропа́вловская кре́пость, Petropavlovskaya Krepost) is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini"s designs from 1706 to 1740. Built at the height of the Northern War in order to protect the projected capital from a feared Swedish counterattack, the fort never fulfilled its martial purpose. The citadel was completed with six bastions in earth and timber within a year, and it was rebuilt in stone from 1706 to 1740. From around 1720, the fort served as a base for the city garrison and also as a prison for high-ranking or political prisoners. The Trubetskoy Bastion, rebuilt in the 1870s, became the main prison block.
The fortress contains several notable buildings clustered around the Peter and Paul Cathedral (1712–1733), which has a 122.5 m (402 ft) bell-tower (the tallest in the city centre) and a gilded angel-topped cupola.
The fortress walls overlook sandy beaches that have become among the most popular in St. Petersburg. In summer, the beach is often overcrowded, especially when a major sand festival takes place on the shore. Source Wikipedia.
The Peter and Paul Fortress has never taken a direct part in military operations. From the very beginning of its existence, it began to be used as the main political prison in Russia. Source Wikipedia (Russian version).
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