The first ship with the British arrived in Petersburg in 1704. It was Peter the First who came to Petersburg on that ship as a pilot.
The ship from England was loaded with various goods - books, cards, engravings, furniture, clothes, horses, crews, the medicines, almost all subjects of use, comfort and luxury, arrived here.
Daniel Defoe (1660—1731). engraving
D. Defoe “Robinson Crusoe” 1719
Jonathan Swift (1667—1745). Vertues’ s engraving
Gulliver's travels. 1726
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They usually carried English ale in butts which Petersburg’s dandies liked to drink with oysters.
English merchants occupied the whole district named the English line in Petersburg. The English line, or English embankment was called Galernaja. This name was given because at the end of the embankment there was Galernaja shipyard then. During the first years the embankment was built up with poor houses of workers.. Later rich English merchants started to build their new magnificent private residences. With the opening of an English church, and an English theater the name of the English line was fixed for a long time. English church
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Not far from the English embankment between the rivers the Moika and the Fontanka is the beginning of the English prospect of Petersburg which appeared in XVIII century and since 1771 it was called Aglinsky prospect. The English prospect was mainly built up in XIX-XX centuries.
“House-dream". The ballerina Anna Pavlova lived here. English bridge
. In August, 1781 the English gardener, James Medersom, and an architect Dzhakomo Kvarengi created the English park which became the first landscape park in Peterhof
In 1782 Cameron started the construction of residence of Pavel — Pavlovsk. The Pavlovsk ensemble is the top of architecture and park-building in Russia at the end of the XVIII-th century.
In 1784 Cameron invited, Adam Menelas Edinburgh to Russia. He created park "Alexandria" in Peterhof and a summer palace "Cottage" in Gothic style, Aleksandrovsky park in Tsarskoje Selo. The Egyptian gate in Tsarskoje Selo became one of the latest works of the master.
The sights of Petersburg from the end of the XVIII century the beginning of the XX-th century were painted by many English draughtsmen: .
“The panorama of Petersburg”, John Atkinson
Kisses bridge
In 1868 Englishman James Mjurged created a Mechanical factory in Petersburg. The factory of cars, then it began to produce its own steam-engines, cranes, metalcutting machine tools, in 1914-17 the factory produced ammunition. In 1922 it was renamed to the factory "Sverdlov", but it went bankrupt in 2005.
T. Dimsdale
1635Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
According to an English legend jam was invented by Janet Keiler at the beginning of the XVIII century, when her husband bought a lot of cheap oranges from the Spanish ship. The oranges were bitter, but Mrs. Keiler decided to make orange jam which soon became world famous.
The slice of bread and butter received the English name “sandwich” in the XVIII-th century. A legend says that in 1762 the sandwich was named after John Montagu, 4th earl of Sandwich,
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