Literally a few minutes walk from the monument to Catherine the Great in the park on the bank of the river Fontanka near Anichkov Bridge, located one of the imperial palaces - Anichkov Palace, which began to build by the architect Mikhail Zemtsov in 1841 and was build in 1843 already in the Baroque style, designed by the architect Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli.
At that time, the Fontanka River was the outskirts of the city and the palace was to decorate the entrance to St. Petersburg along Nevsky Prospekt. For a long time the palace was the residence of the royal family. After the revolution in the Soviet period, the palace was a museum and the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers (children of school age).
A bridge was built across the Fontanka River. The bridge was built by an engineer battalion under the command of lieutenant-colonel engineer Mikhail Anichkov. It was from here that the bridge got its name.
The bridge in the corners is decorated with four bronze statues "The Conquest of the Horse" by sculptor Peter Klodt, made by him in 1841-1851.
Thus, we walked a few hundred meters along Nevsky Prospekt of St. Petersburg. See you soon on the streets of our city.