PART 5 IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT STORE - ST. PETERSBURG, WALKS
Channel: IVAR MALDEIKIS
Date: 21/12/2023

In this video we will visit one of the most beautiful places in St. Petersburg - the Imperial department store Eau Pont Rouge. We will stroll through the department store and finish our walk along Gorokhovaya Street.
With Emperor Nicholas II, not only the dynasty of the Russian imperial house is interrupted, but also the history of St. Petersburg as its capital, as a city not only of “royal whim,” but also of imperial power, Russian genius and national flourishing. Nurtured in the august cradle, gathering around itself the best in the country and in the world, absorbing only everything worthy of eternity, St. Petersburg remains for the next centuries exclusively the city of the empire - the empire of culture, art, history, harmony, majesty and power of Russia. He is the only one in the whole country, paradoxically distant from it in a foggy distance, the imperial center, the capital, shrouded in the northern, but White nights...