Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Senatskaya Square ( 8 класс )

a panoramic view of the Bolshaya Neva, the Alexander Garden, the magnificent buildings of the Senate and Synod, St. Isaac's Cathedral, and the Admiralty. The compositional center and main ornament of the square is the Bronze Horseman.

first squares in St. Petersburg. In 1710, the first wooden St. Isaac's Church was erected on the shores of the Neva. Later, the church was moved to the marshy location where the current St. Isaac's Cathedral stands.

thanks to the Isaac "floating bridge", formed every summer from ferries and barges, and replaced in winter by a wooden walkway across the ice. 

Senat square is also remarkable now for the buildings of the former Senate and Synod. The governing Senate was established by Peter I in 1711 and it had to rule the state while the tsar was away. The Senate was then converted into higher judicial instance.

and by this act Peter 1 put the activity of the church under the state control.
The buildings of the Synod and Senate were rebuilt by the architect Carlo Rossi in 1834. They were connected by the arch across Galernaya Street.

Faith and Law. The arch was created by the sculptors Pimenov and Demut-Malinovskiy.

The building is now split between the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.

stands the western wing of the Admiralty that was originally formed by Peter I as a shipyard. This building was completed by the architect Andreyan Zakharov in 1822.

is a monument to Peter 1, The Bronze Horseman. The author of the monument is the great French sculptor Etienne Falconet. His pupil Marie Collot created the head of the rider. The monument was erected due to the Empress Catherine II and her desire to have a monument that could glorify all the achievements of Peter the Great.

the pedestal spread. A quick- witted peasant reported that there was a granite rock known as “Thunder-stone” not far from his village Lakhta.
The name “Thunder-stone” was given to the rock many years ago, when a thunderclap split the rock into several parts.

monolith to St. Petersburg. A peasant ( or a blacksmith ?) Vishnyakov found a brilliant solution. He proposed to raise the rock by levers. The rock was mounted on a platform of logs and rolled on copper balls along the rails to the shores of the Gulf of Finland.

the square by the Senate.
It took about 2 years to transport the rock to the city.

and the Peter I is depicted by Falconet as a horseman riding a horse at a full gallop. A snake, symbol of treason, is trampled by the horse. 

in Russian and Latin are laid with bronze letters :
”To Peter the First – Catherine the Second. The year 1782”.
“Petro primo Catharina secunda MDCCLXXXII”

Square. It got its new name from the dramatic events that took place here on December 14, 1825
After the death of the Emperor Alexander I a group of aristocrats staged a revolt in an attempt to prevent the crowning if Nicolas I as a new Russian Emperor.

and serfdom. The revolt was suppressed. Some Decembrists ( Ryleyev, Kakhovskiy, Muravyov-Apostol, Bestuzhev-Rumin, Pestel ) were executed, the others- were sent to Siberia in exile and hard labor.

remember them as heroes.
However in 2008 it was decided to return the square its original name Senatskaya Square.