Alexander Nevsky Monastery

• City
• Hermitage
• St.Isaac's Cathedral
• Russian Museum

• Peterhof
• Pavlovsk
• Yussupov' Palace
• Peter and Paul Fortress

• Marrinsky Theatre
• Alexander Nevsky Monastery
• Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
• Catherine's Palace and Park (Pushkin)

   Alexander Nevsky Monastery (Lavra) was founded by Peter the Great in 1710 as the Monastery of the Holy Trinity Saint Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky in honor of the victory over the Swedes in 1240. In 1724 the remnants of Alexander Nevsky were on Peter's order transferred from the city of Vladimir to St.Petersburg — Alexander Nevsky Monastery. It is located at the end of Nevsky Prospect. The monastery trained priests of high rank for the Orthodox Church. In 1726 Slavonic, Greek and Latin Seminary was opened. In 1797 the monastery got the lavra status (the highest rank of the monastery in the Orthodox Church).

   The monastery complex comprises The Holy Trinity Cathedral, one of St.Petersburg's main functioning places of worship, the Tikhvin and Lazarus cemeteries where the outstanding figures of Russian culture as Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky are buried. There are also the graves of Alexander Suvorov, celebrated general; scholar Mikhail Lomonosov; architects Giacomo Quarenghi and Carlo Rossi; composers Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Rubinstein, Rimsky-Korsakov and many others.