From Catherine the First to Anna Ioannovna. 1724–1732: the time of doubts and uncertainty in the destiny of the capital city — should it be allowed to remain a town-planning heritage of Peter the Great?
Abstract
The article investigates the period of St. Petersburg development which has up to now been studied not very profoundly, namely, the period from 1724 to 1732. It is called the period without strong governance. This period was regarded as the time characterized with little or no results for St. Petersburg town planning and architecture, the time when all architectural and construction creative processes led to destruction and withering. A scrupulous study of documents allowed evaluating the events of those years from a different point of view. Certainly, in regard of power and rates of development, these years could not be compared with the previous period of St. Petersburg formation under Peter the Great. Still, those were the years of continuation (although weakened by inadequate initiative and even, sometimes, an atrophy of political will) of progress in creation and development of the capital city on the Neva river. Peter the Second`s departure together with all Imperial court to Moscow in 1728 did not stop those processes fed by a unique inertial strength of Peter the Great. It was during this period that the main innovation of the town-planning composition — completion of the trajectory of transferring the city downtown which had been first formed on the St. Petersburg island (1703–1721), then started moving onto the Spit of Bazil Island (1721–1732), and, finally, settled in the Admiralty district (from 1731–1732).
Keywords:
history of town-planning development of Saint-Petersburg, the city centre development, preservation of town-planning tendencies of development, town-planning framework and town-planning fabric, administrative and police division of the city, the city and the suburbs
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