TEC4566527: The Gum department store, one of the largest stores in Russia, stretches 252 metres long and 88 metres deep. It consists of three passages joined together by corridors and bridges and covered by a large glass that lets the light filter. Built in 1894, on Red Square, Moscow (Russia) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4567533: View of Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg (Russia). Architect Domenico Trezzini (1670-1734), 1706. The Fortress was founded in 1706 by Peter the Great (Peter I of Russia, 1672-1725) after three French engineers: Jean Francois Blondel (1705-1774), Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) and Blaise Francois Pagan de Merveilles (1604-1665). There is the tomb of Alexander III of Russia (1845-1894), the initiator of the Franco-Russian alliance, on which the French presidents of the Third Republic gathered during their official travels. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4567712: The Cathedrale of the Resurrection of Christ (Architect Alfred Alexandrovich Parland (1842-1920), construction 1883-1907) seen between the columns of the Cathedrale Notre Dame of Kazan (construction 1801-1811, architect Andrei Voronikhin (1759-1814), in St. Petersburg (Russia). / Bridgeman Images