St. Petersburg

First Impressions of St. Petersburg: The River Neva and Surroundings

Field of Mars / Summer Gardens

The Admiralty / Hermitage / Cathedral of the Saviour-on-the-Blood / Narva 1812 Memorial Arch / Anichkov Bridge / Peter and Paul Fortress / Kunstkamera / Palace Square

Yusupov Palace

Smolny Convent / Cathedral of St Nicholas

The White Hall of the Russian Museum

Boat Trip by Night

The Hermitage Palace

Yelagin Park / Tikhvin Cemetery

The City by Night: Lenenergo Building / Rossi Street / Palace Square / Russian Museum / Pushkin Monument / Peter and Paul Fortress / Cathedral of St Isaac / Bronze Horseman

Tsarskoye Selo: Palace of Catherine the Great

Pavlovsk: Summer Palace of Paul I

Petrodvoryets: Summer Palace of Peter the Great

Petrodvoryets: Summer Palace of Peter the Great - the grounds

A White Night Sunset over the Sea

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Date of Production: 2009-06-22

Playing Time: 01:01:18

Catalogue Number: 2.110511

UPC: 0747313551156

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The Places

St. Petersburg, the former Russian capital established in 1712 by Peter the Great, represented an era of modernisation. Built around the river Neva, which flows into the seas of the Gulf of Finland, its palaces, streets and parks reflect the age of its construction and wider European influences to which the tsar sought to direct his country.

The Music

The composers whose music is here included - Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Liadov and Ippolitov-Ivanov - were themselves closely associated with Russian music of the later nineteenth century and, inevitably, with St. Petersburg and its Conservatory.