Everything about Fontanka totally explained
Fontanka is a left branch of the river
Neva, which flows through the whole of
Central Saint Petersburg,
Russia. Its length is 6,700 meters, its width is up to 70 meters, and its depth is up to 3,5 meters. The Fontanka Embankment is lined with the former private residences of
Russian nobility.
This river, one of 93
rivers and
channels in St. Petersburg, was once named
Anonymous Creek (in Russian,
Bezymyannyi Yerik,
Безымянный ерик). In the
Russian language,
yerik is a secondary or
intermittent river channel (
creek or
brook). In 1719, the river received its present name, because water from it supplied the
fountains of the
Summer Garden.
Until the mid-18th century, the Fontanka River was considered the southern boundary of St. Petersburg. Its banks were lined with the spacious messuages of Russian Imperial Family members and nobility, the most brilliant being the
Summer Palace and
Anichkov Palace. In
1780-
1789 Andrey Kvasov superintended the construction of the granite embankments and approaches to the river. The river-bed was regularised as well.
Among the relics of
Baroque architecture along the banks of the river are the
Sheremetev Palace,
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace,
Shuvalov Palace, and the Church of St. Panteleimon. The notable
Neoclassical structures from the 18th century include the Catherine Institute, the Anichkov Palace and the Yusupov Palace. Some of the mansions contain museums of those writers and composers who lived there:
Gavrila Derzhavin,
Alexander Pushkin,
Ivan Turgenev,
Anna Akhmatova and others.
The Fontanka is spanned by fifteen bridges, including the 18th-century
Lomonosov Bridge and the extravagant
Egyptian Bridge. The most famous of these, the
Anichkov Bridge, carries the
Nevsky Prospekt over the river.
Gallery
Image:fontanka grot.jpg|Fontanka in 1753
Image:fontanka.jpg|Anichkov Bridge
Image:пантелеймоновский.jpg|St. Pantaleon Bridge
Image:Chizhyk-Pyzhik_statue.jpg|Statue of Chizhik-Pyzhik
Image:fontanka beggrov.jpg|Fontanka River in the 1820s
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