Boats of Saint Petersburg

Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
A Rinker sport boat of the Captiva series (the Rinker Boat Company, the USA) on the Moyka River in Saint Petrsburg.

Towers of the Moscow Kremlin. A view from the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.

Let’s ascend the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge and have a look on the Kremlin.

Dmitry Ivanov. 2016. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
On the left we see three towers of the south wall (from left to right):

• the Taynitskaya Tower (the Secret Tower) – it was built in 1485 and became the first tower of the current Kremlin; in 1770–1771 the tower was dismantled but in 1783 it was built again;
• the First Unnamed Tower, it was built in 1480s, dismantled in 1770s and built again in 1780s; in 1812 the tower was blown up by the French, in 1835 it was restored;
• the Second Unnamed Tower, it was built in 1480s, dismantled in 1770s and built again in 1780s.

The building of the Grand Kremlin Palace is seen behind the towers.

Portriat of Nikolay Gnedich by Anton Ivanov

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Portrait of Nikolay Gnedich by Anton Ivanov. 1835. Marble.
The medaillon on the tombstone of Nikolay Gnedich in the Tikhvin Cenetry, Saint Petersburg: the marble replica created in 1961. The marble original of the medaillon (1835) is kept in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Primarily the sculptural portrait of N. Gnedich was attributed to the Samuil Ivanovich Galberg (1787—1839). Later Elena Karpova, the curator of the sculpture collection of the State Russian Museum, advanced another version: the bas-relief was created by Anton Andreevich Ivanov (?—1852), a pupil of Samuil Galber. This version is based on a report in Khudozhestvennaya Gazeta (Artistic Newspaper, 1841), where the portrait of N. Gnedich is mentioned among works by A. A. Ivanov and on the list of works by A. A. Ivanov in The Lexicon of Russian Artist by Nikolay Sobko.