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A view from the western side of the Winter Palace's
roof enables one to admire the enormous Admiralty building (architect
Adrian Zakharov, 1806-23). Three thoroughfares are radiating from
it in a huge trident, which in the early 19th century determined the
layout of the city's central part. Now the ensemble is partly concealed
from view by the late 19th-century blocks of flats on the Neva embankment
and by the Alexander Garden in front of the main facade. However,
the spire of the Admiralty crowned with the famous sailing-ship weather-vane
is still glittering in the sky over St Petersburg. |
