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'''Nevsky Prospect''' ({{lang-rus|Не́вский проспе́кт|r=Nevsky [[Prospekt (street)|Prospekt]]|p=ˈnʲɛfskʲɪj prɐˈspʲɛkt}}) is a [[main street]] ([[high street]]) located in the federal city of [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] in [[Russian Federation|Russia]]. Its name comes from the [[Alexander Nevsky Lavra]], the monastery which stands at the eastern end of the street, and which commemorates the Russian hero Prince Saint [[Alexander Nevsky]] (1221–1263). Following his founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, Tsar [[Peter the Great|Peter I]] planned the course of the street as the beginning of the road to [[Veliky Novgorod|Novgorod]] and [[Moscow]]. The avenue runs from the [[Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg|Admiralty]] in the west to the [[Moskovsky railway station (Saint Petersburg)|Moscow Railway Station]] and, after veering slightly southwards at [[Vosstaniya Square]], to the [[Alexander Nevsky Lavra]].

== History of the street ==
=== 18th century ===
=== Early 18th century. Reign of [[Peter the Great]] ===
On September 5, 1704, [[Admiralty, Saint Petersburg|Admiralty of the Saint Petersburg]] was laid on the left side of the [[Neva|Neva River]]. The area adjacent to the fortress began to be built up. In the area of modern {{ill|Bolshaya Morskaya|fr|Rue_Bolchaïa_Morskaïa}} and {{ill|Malaya Morskaya|fr|Rue_Malaïa_Morskaïa}} streets, settlements of ship craftsmen appeared, which were wooden houses and [[Mazanka|huts]] with [[front garden]]s. On the site of [[Palace Square]] a "Sea" market appeared, with huts and chests, wagons with firewood and hay stood. The area near the Admiralty became one of the most densely populated parts of the city. 

In the early 1710s, a monastery (the future [[Alexander Nevsky Lavra]]) appeared on the left side of the Neva at the confluence of the Chernaya Rechka (now it is Monastyrka River). At the time, it was assumed that the famous [[Battle of the Neva]] took place there in 1240, where the Russian squad led by the [[Novgorod Republic|Novgorod prince]] [[Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky|Alexander Nevsky]] defeated the Swedes. Near the monastery, there was a whole settlement with wooden houses for workers and servants, as well as a garden and a vegetable garden with numerous outbuildings: carpentry, blacksmiths and cattle yards, a mill, a cellar, and trade shops.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 5-14" >{{cite book | author = Chesnokova AN | title = Nevsky Prospect | year = 1985 | place = Leningrad | publisher = Lenizdat | pages = 5–14 | isbn =}}</ref><ref name = "Parade" />

It became necessary to connect the two city centers with the old Novgorodsky tract (which ran approximately along the route of the modern [[Ligovsky Avenue|Ligovsky prospect]]), which led inland. By imperial command, the construction of [[Clearing (forest)|clearings]]<ref name = "Parade" /> began, which went through the swampy forest. The most swampy areas were in the area of modern Kazansky Cathedral, Mikhailovskaya Street, especially in the area between Ligovsky Prospect and Alexander Nevsky Lavra, which were a continuous chain of swamps.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens">{{cite book | author = Vesnina N.N. | title = Nevsky Prospect Gardens | year = 2008 | place = SPb. | publisher = Propylaea | pages = 10–18 | isbn =}}</ref> In 1712 the monks of the monastery began to pave the road from the monastery to the Novgorod tract, by 1718 it was completed ('' '{{Nowrap | ... paved}} and managed' ''). A fairly simple technology was used to overcome the bog swamps: they cut down the forest, uprooted the stumps. Drainage ditches were dug to drain excess water and drain the swamps. [[fascine]]s were laid along the road, covering them with sand. It is believed that the more difficult section ("monastery") was completed first.<ref name = "Parade" />
Translation in English of the quote about the Nevskaya perspective: 
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|text=Large promising road, Large perspective, Nevskaya perspective – the name of Nevsky prospect in those years ... starting from the Admiralty itself and continuing to the Alexandronevsky monastery, built ... in 1713
|author= [[Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov|Andrew Ivanovich Bogdanov]]
|width=30em
|source=Historical, geographical and topographic description of St. Petersburg from the beginning of its establishment, from 1703 to 1751. 10. Admiralty Island <ref name = "Bogdanov" />
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The first section of the highway from Moika to Fontanka was laid from 1710 to 1715, and then work continued on the section from Moika to the Admiralty.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens" /> Along the Glukhoi channel (the current Griboyedov Canal) and further to modern Sadovaya Street, the so-called Resettlement Settlements arose, in which "artisans" with families were settled, transferred from Central Russia to St. Petersburg under construction by decree of 1710. Between the settlements and the Nevskaya Proseka, there was a strip of swampy forest, forbidden to felling on pain of severe punishment and even for walking. The left side of the avenue from Moika to Fontanka, occupied by the gardens of the Empress [[Catherine I|Ekaterina Alekseevna]], was guarded by sentries. Periodically, rampant searches were carried out, those who were found to have felled trees were beaten by [[batog]] at the "Big Perspective".<ref name = "Stolpyanskiy">{{cite book | author = P.N. Stolpyanskiy | title = How it appeared, was founded and grew St. Petersburg | year = 1918 | place = SPb. | publisher = | page = 319 }}</ref> In 1721-23, on the banks of the Fontanka, a stone palace was erected for Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna, and during his reign, they laid out a regular garden called Italian. The garden occupied a huge space along the route of modern Nevsky Prospekt from Fontanka to modern Vosstaniya streets.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens" />

One way or another, Nevsky Prospect emerged in the second half of the 1710s. The glades from the Admiralty and from the Lavra together formed the future Nevsky Prospect. It is precisely the fact that the two roads were laid independently of each other that explains the break in the highway in the area of modern Vosstaniya Square.<ref name="gov">{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.spb.ru/culture/nevsky_prospect |title=Невский проспект на официальном портале Администрации Санкт-Петербурга |access-date=2007-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902134813/http://gov.spb.ru/culture/nevsky_prospect |archive-date=2007-09-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The avenue immediately became a major highway in demand and, after building bridges over water obstacles, completely replaced the old path. The large perspective turned out to be about 4 miles long (4.5 kilometers), and 9 fathoms wide (about 20 meters).<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 5-14" /> A wooden drawbridge [[Green Bridge (Saint Petersburg)|Green bridge]] across the [[Moyka|Moika]] was erected in 1720.<ref name = "Bunin">{{cite book|author= Bunin M.S |title= Bridges of Leningrad}}</ref> The crossing was the city border in 1703–1726, [[tax]]es gathered here, for this there was [[Chicherin's House|Mytny Dvor]], next to which was [[Gostiny Dvor at the Green Bridge|Gostiny Dvor]].<ref name = "Parade" /> Even earlier, a bridge was built across the Fontanka, in 1715 [[Peter the Great|Emperor Peter I]] issued a decree: "Over the Big Neva on the Fountain River, there is a prospect to create a bridge." By May 1716,<ref name = "Bunin" /> the work was completed, and a wooden girder bridge on pile supports blocked both the channel itself and the swampy floodplain. In 1726 a guardhouse was erected and the city border was moved here.<ref name = "Parade" />

=== 1725–1762. Nevsky Prospect in the [[Era of Palace coups]] ===
The great prospect became the main road: it was along it, as stated in the Senate decree of 1726, "there is always both arrival and departure of foreign and Russian subjects from everywhere to St. Petersburg." The government invested money in the improvement and cleanliness of the highway. In the 1720s, the initial section of the road running along [[Alexander Garden (Saint Petersburg)|Admiralty Meadow]] was landscaped: four rows of [[birch]]es were planted on the sides, which were regularly trimmed, the road was paved with stones. In 1723, the avenue was the first in Russia to receive [[street lighting]]: [[street lamp|oil lanterns]] were installed, later benches for passers-by appeared under them.<ref name = "Parade" /><ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens"/>

Translation in English of the quote: Description of this alley, made in 1721 by a chamber junker in the duke's retinue [[Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp|Karl-Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp]]:
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|text='' At about six in the evening we arrived safely in St. Petersburg, which has changed so much since my departure from there that I did not recognize it at all. '' From the very beginning we entered a long and wide alley, (a small part of the road not far from the Admiralty), and justly called the avenue, because its end is almost invisible. It was laid only in a few years and exclusively by the hands of captured Swedes. Despite the fact that the trees planted on both sides of it in three or four rows are still small, it is unusually beautiful in its enormous length and the purity in which it is kept (captured Swedes must clean it every Saturday), and it makes a wonderful appearance , which I have not seen anywhere else. On the Admiralty, a beautiful and huge building at the end of this road, there is a beautiful and rather tall spitz, which goes directly opposite the avenue
|author=Friedrich-Wilhelm von Berchholtz 
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|source= Diary entry from {{OldStyleDate | 4 | July | 1721 | 23 | June}} a <ref name = "Parade" /><ref name = "Main street" />
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By the end of the first quarter of the 18th century, the buildings of the Great Perspective were few. In the beginning, there were several small houses, on the right side at the corner of the Moika there was a Mytny Dvor, behind the Moika there were salt barns. On the site of the modern Gostiny Dvor, a birch grove was green, then there were "perevedenskie settlements" consisting of wooden houses. The vast territory on the left side of the road from Moika to Fontanka was owned by Empress Catherine I, was low, swampy and undeveloped. The suburb of St Petersburg began behind the Fontanka. On the right side were the houses of the Anichkov settlement, where the soldiers of the Admiralty Workers' Battalion lived under the command of Lieutenant Colonel [[Anichkovs|M. O. Anichkov]]. This battalion in 1715 built a wooden bridge across the Fontanka, called [[Anichkov Bridge]]. 

Behind this narrow access bridge, from 1726, there was a wooden guard house, documents were checked and the barrier was raised. A canal was laid along the route of the current Ligovsky Prospekt, which supplied water to the [[Summer Garden]] fountains. Further, the territory was covered with forest and almost not developed. Buildings appeared only closer to the monastery, where land was allotted "in a line along the promising road" for the workers and employees of the monastery.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 5-14" />

The construction of the avenue did not end there. In 1723, Peter I ordered to 'lay' the road from the cathedral church to the Admiralty in a prospective way. The road was supposed to abut against the vertical dominant – [[Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra|Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery]]. For a number of reasons, it was not possible to realize this idea – the cathedral did not become a dominant feature and the road was not straightened. The idea of straightening the street was returned in the 1730s and the route was drawn along modern Goncharnaya and Telezhnaya streets. The original section of the avenue was given the name Staro-Nevsky. Later in [[1760s|the 1760s]], the two directions were merged and Nevsky Prospekt got its modern look.<ref name = "Parade" />
[[File: Nevskii prospect and Admiralty.jpg | left | thumb | 300px | Nevsky prospect near [[Main Admiralty|Admiralty]] in 1753. [[Engraving]] [[Kachalov, Grigory Anikeevich|A. Kachalova]]]]
[[File: Nevskiy old.jpg | left|thumb | 300px | View of Nevsky Prospekt and Stroganov Palace, third quarter of the 18th century. Further to the right is the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, to the left – the Lutheran Church of St Peter]]
After a four-year stay in [[Moscow]], in 1732 the courtyard of [[Anna Ioannovna]] returned to St Petersburg. For this event, the avenue was renovated and two triumphal arches were built on it (one at the Anichkov Bridge at the entrance to the city, the other at the bridge across the Moika), the event itself was quite pompous.<ref name = "Parade" /> The construction of the first large stone buildings began. The most significant of them was the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, erected in 1733–1737 according to the project [[Mikhail Zemtsov]] on the site of the park in front of the current Kazan Cathedral. The temple was a rectangular building stretched along the avenue, similar in composition to [[Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg|Peter and Paul Cathedral]]. On the opposite side, in 1730, the [[Lutheran]] Church of St Peter appeared, located in the depths of the site. Two symmetrical residential buildings (which have not survived to this day) overlooked the avenue.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 5-14" />

All buildings on the shady side of the early 18th century were destroyed in the fire of 1736. Mytny Dvor caught fire, then the flame spread to the neighboring wooden buildings. The fire raged for several hours, and as a result, several quarters of philistine wooden houses near the Admiralty burned down. The second fire happened a year later, destroying most of the buildings in the center of St Petersburg. After that, according to the Commission on the St. Petersburg Building, wooden houses on Nevsky were no longer built.<ref name = "Notable" /><ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 14-31" >{{Cite book | author = Chesnokova AN | title = Nevsky Prospect | year = 1985 | place = L. | publisher = Lenizdat | pages = 14–31 }}</ref> 

The Neva perspective became the most important factor that influenced the change in the layout of the entire settlement. She, together with [[Voznesensky Avenue|Vosnesensky Prospect]] and [[Gorokhovaya Street]], became part of the famous Admiralty "trident", which was approved by the Commission on the St. Petersburg building under the leadership of [[Pyotr Yeropkin]]. As a result, a powerful organizing structure was imposed on the disordered layout, and the status of the city center was finally entrenched for the Admiralty side.<ref>{{cite book | author = T.F.Savarenskaya | title = History of urban planning art. Late feudalism and capitalism | place = M. | year = 2004 | edition = Architecture-C | pages = 109–113}}</ref> Since 1739, the main stone building was carried out on Nevsky Prospekt. It was carried out according to a strict plan, the houses were displayed with the main facades on the {{ill|Red line (urban planning|lt=red line|ru|Красная линия (градостроительство)|nl|Rooilijn}} and were built according to standard "model" drawings developed by M.G. Zemtsov. These were one-story buildings, built on a high "cellar" semi-storey, processed by rustic. The central part of the facade is highlighted by an attic; next to it there was a gate that served as an entrance to the courtyard. The houses were distinguished by different [[Pediment|pediments]] and [[Attic (architecture)|attics]], arrangement of windows, drawing of [[pilaster]]s, [[platband]] s and decorative details. Such buildings appeared in the late 1730s – early 1740s along the highway between Moika and Fontanka. Land plots for the construction of houses on the avenue were acquired by state councilors, generals, wealthy merchants, factory owners, courtiers. Soon, members of the royal family and their entourage began to receive land, and the construction of palaces began. The first such structure was [[Anichkov Palace]], intended for [[Elizaveta Petrovna]], with a whole palace and park ensemble that arose on the site from Fontanka to present-day Sadovaya Street, with a huge regular garden with fountains enclosed by a stone wall , gazebos, greenhouses, ponds and covered walkways. The construction of the palace began in 1741 according to Zemtsov's drawings, and was completed in the 1750s [[Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli]]. Anichkov Palace is the oldest building on Nevsky Prospekt, preserved to this day.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 14-31" /><ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens" />

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In the 1740s, the site at the corner with the Moika River was occupied by a two-story house [[Stroganovs|Barons Stroganovs]]. In 1752 it burned down and in its place, according to the design of the architect FB Rastrelli, was built [[Stroganov Palace]] with an extensive courtyard. A large wooden Winter Palace, built by Rastrelli for the royal family, grew nearby in 1755. The palace occupied the territory of two modern quarters, with its main facade facing Nevsky Prospekt from Moika to the present [[Malaya Morskaya Street (St. Petersburg)|Malaya Morskaya Street]]. It was a temporary structure until the completion of the construction of the stone Winter Palace on the banks of the Neva; it was dismantled after the death of Elizaveta Petrovna. With the appearance of the royal residence and palaces of nobles on the avenue, more attention was paid to landscaping. By the decree of Elizabeth Petrovna in 1756, it was forbidden for the townsfolk to hang clothes on the trees to dry. The pavement was laid with stones of various shapes, sizes and colors, making up squares, triangles and stripes. By the end of the 18th century, the embankments of the Fontanka and the Catherine Canal were dressed in granite, and the stone bridges [[Kazansky bridge|Kazansky]] and [[Anichkov bridge|Anichkov]] were thrown across them. Birches were removed, and the Nevskaya perspective became wider and more spacious.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 14-31" />
[[File: Nevsky prospect in 1800.jpg | left | thumb | 300px | [[Patersen, Benjamin|B. Pa]]. Nevsky Prospect near Gostiny Dvor.<br/> 1799]]

The new [[Commission on the stone building of St. Petersburg and Moscow|urban planning commission]] headed by the architect [[Andrey Kvasov]], which appeared in 1762, decided to improve the center of the capital, to streamline its development. Stone houses up to 6 [[Sazhen|fathoms]] (about 13 meters) high were to be erected along the Neva perspective, in a line, "with one continuous facade". Intensive construction began, primarily on previously empty plots and on the site of demolished wooden houses. The height of the buildings increased to two or three floors, and [[classicism]] replaced the baroque. One of the first such samples is [[Chicherin House]] built on the site of the demolished wooden Winter Palace of Elizabeth, at the corner of Nevsky and Moika near the Police Bridge. On the left side of the avenue from the Admiralty to [[Bolshaya Morskaya Street (St. Petersburg)|Bolshaya Morskaya Street]] and between the present Sadovaya Street and Anichkov Bridge, previously empty quarters in the second half of the 18th century were built up with philistine houses according to "exemplary" projects developed by Kvasov ... Two such houses, No. 8 and No. 10, built in the 1760s, have survived to this day. Various churches of different faiths appear, the construction of which was carried out on the left side. In 1780, [[Saint Catherine's Armenian Church]] appeared, according to the project of the architect [[Yury Felten]], and in 1783 – [[Church of St. Catherine (Saint Petersburg)|Catholic Church of Saint Catherine]] according to the project [[Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe]] and [[Antonio Rinaldi (architect)|Antonio Rinaldi]]. Each of these churches stands in the back of the block, in front of them are small courtyards, which are framed on both sides by two residential buildings facing the red line. In the second half of the 18th century, commercial enterprises began to appear on the main street of the capital. In the 1730s, a wooden predecessor to the modern [[Gostiny Dvor (St. Petersburg)|Gostiny Dvor]] appeared. One-story squat benches under a common high roof, with an open gallery in front of them, stretched along the avenue. By a decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of 1748, it was decided to replace the wooden building with a stone one at the expense of merchants according to the project of the architect Rastrelli, which was later replaced by the project of Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe in the style of classicism. The Gostiny Dvor was built from 1761 to 1785, indented from the red line, which gave a good view of the building from afar. Other stone trading structures appeared nearby, for example, the Silver Rows, which opened in 1787. Nearby, architect [[Giacomo Ferrari (architect)|Giacomo Ferrari]] erected [[City Duma building (St. Petersburg)|City Duma building]] with a tower at the corner with Nevsky Prospekt.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 14-31" />

By the end of the 18th century, both sides of the highway beyond the Fontanka were almost built up. In the place where the metro station "Ploschad Vosstaniya" is now located, in 1765, according to the project of the architect {{Interlanguage link multi|Fyodor Demertsov|ru|3=Демерцов, Фёдор Иванович}} [[Znamenskaya Church on Znamenskaya Square|Znamenskaya Church]] appeared. On the site of the current [[Oktyabrskaya (hotel, St. Petersburg)|Oktyabrskaya Hotel]] since 1743, the Elephant Dvor was located, where elephants were housed, donated by [[Nadir Shah|the Persian shah]] the royal court. Later on this place was a hunter's yard with a wooden [[Gamekeeper|Ober-Jaegermeister]]'s house  Further on the left side was the "new carriage row" – stone sheds where you could buy [[carriage]]s, [[Stroller]]s, [[sleighs]] and other carriages. On the right side in the so-called "carts" sold old carts, harness, as well as other goods "simple needs for each household." In this part, and before the Lavra, the Nevskaya perspective did not look like a parade. By the end of the 18th century, the formation of the ensemble of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra was completed. In 1790, [[Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra|Trinity Cathedral]] was built according to the project of [[Ivan Starov]]. According to his designs, a round square was created in front of the entrance to the Lavra, bounded on the southern side by a curved stone fence, with the [[Gate Church]] in the center. The entrance to the square from the side of the avenue was designed by two two-story houses (now No. 179 and No. 190).<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 14-31" />

=== 19th and early 20th centuries ===
[[File: Columns and Kazan Kathedral behiind.jpg | left | thumb | 300px | Colonnade of the Kazan Cathedral, in front of which are the monuments to Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly; <br/> [[Vasily Sadovnikov]], watercolor, 1837]]
[[File: Russian National Library building.jpg | left|thumb | 300px | View of the building of the Imperial Public Library, Sadovaya Street and Gostiny Dvor<br/> 1800s]]

The final design of Nevsky Prospekt as an avenue-ensemble took shape in the first third of the 19th century. At this time, the masters of high classicism were creating. In 1799, a competition was announced for the construction of a cathedral on the site of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, which was won by the former serf of the Stroganov counts, [[Andrey Voronikhin]]. [[Kazan Cathedral (St. Petersburg)|Kazan Cathedral]] was built from 1801 to 1811 and was consecrated on 15 September 1811, and in 1813 was buried under its vaults [[Field Marshal (Russia)|Field Marshal]] [[Mikhail Kutuzov]]. On 29 December 1837, the opening of monuments to Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly to the generals [[Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly]] and [[Mikhail Kutuzov]] on the square in front of the cathedral, created by the sculptor [[Boris Orlovsky]]. 
[[File:Monument to Barclay de Tolly in SPB.jpg|thumb|Statue of Barclay de Tolly in front of the city's [[Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg|Kazan Cathedral]] by [[Boris Orlovsky]]]]

In 1806–23, the Admiralty was rebuilt. At the same time, work was underway to improve the surrounding areas. In 1816–1818, a boulevard into three alleys was laid out on the site of a moat and a rampart. At the same time, ensembles appeared, designed by architect Carlo Rossi. The ensemble [[Palace Square]] connects to Nevsky Prospekt through the Triumphal Arch [[General Staff Building (Saint Petersburg)|General Staff Building]]. Another Rossi ensemble at [[Arts Square]] connects with the main highway, Mikhailovskaya Street. The third ensemble, Ostrovsky Square, is open to Nevsky Prospekt and is an integral part of it. The first buildings of the ensemble appeared in 1816–18, two light pavilions with sculptures of warriors in armor, connected by a fence of strict design.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 31-44" /> In 1828–32, Rossi added a huge (90 meters long) new building to the building of the Public Library, creating a harmonious whole structure. At the same time, the [[Alexandrinsky Theater]] was being built at the back of the square. The theater building was one of the best for its time in terms of planning, stage equipment and skill of external and internal decoration.<ref name = "Leningrad. Guide">{{cite book | title = Leningrad. Guide | others = Compiled by Serpokryl &nbsp; S.&nbsp;M. | place = L. | publisher = Lenizdat | year = 1973 | pages = 133–140}}</ref><ref name="Nevsky Prospekt 31-44">{{cite book | author = Chesnokova AN | title = Nevsky Prospekt | year = 1985 | place = L. | publisher = Lenizdat | pages = 31–44 | isbn =}}</ref> 

In the 1830s, artist [[Vasily Sadovnikov]] made a series of lithographs depicting both sides of Nevsky Prospekt from Admiralteyskaya Square to Anichkov Bridge, known as the "Panorama of Nevsky Prospekt" (1830–1835). Made in watercolors, almost 16 meters long, it was translated into lithographic stone and published by A. M. Prevost in a series of 30 sheets.<ref>{{cite book  | author = IG Kotelnikova | title = Panorama of Nevsky Prospekt VS Sadovnikov. YM Denisov. Supplement to the album "Panorama of Nevsky Prospekt by V.S. Sadovnikov" | year = 1971 | place = L. | publisher = Aurora | pages = | isbn =}}</ref>
[[File: Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace and Anichkov Bridge St. Petersburg.jpg | left | thumb | 300px | View from the Anichkov bridge to the Beloselsky-Belozersky palace (1850s)]]

By order of Emperor [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]] in 1800, two boulevards were created along Nevsky Prospekt in the section from Moika to Fontanka. In 1802–1803 they were replaced by one boulevard of lindens, designed by the architect I. E. Stamov by garden masters F. Lyamin and M. Prokopin. The level of the boulevard became higher than the pavement; stepped slopes were added opposite bridges and cross streets. Two years later, the boulevard next to the Kazan Cathedral under construction was liquidated, and in 1819 it was completely abandoned in the middle of the avenue, replacing it with ordinary plantings of trees along the new granite sidewalks of the avenue. Landings were interrupted at the Catherine Canal and cross streets. The entire row planting existed until 1841, when by order of the emperor [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] it was liquidated, all trees were transplanted into [[Summer Garden]]. Ordinary plantings were restored in 1897 on the sites in front of the Kazan Cathedral (liquidated two years later in connection with the construction of the square) and Gostiny Dvor.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens" /> 

In 1832, the pavement on the avenue was replaced with a paved one [[Mostovaya#End pavement|butts]] – with hexagonal wooden blocks. This type of end pavement, invented by engineer V.P. Guryev, was first used here, then became widespread in many cities [[Europe]] and [[North America|America]]. The side paving provided a soft and quiet ride and existed on Nevsky Prospekt until 1924, when the asphalt was replaced. In 1806, one of the first metal bridges was thrown across the Moika – [[Green Bridge (St. Petersburg)|Police Bridge]] designed by V. I. Hesse. Before that, the Moika was clad in granite. By 1841, the Anichkov Bridge was rebuilt: it was expanded, four granite towers were removed, a cast-iron lattice and horse groups on the theme of taming a horse by a man, created according to the project of the sculptor [[Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg|Peter Clodt]]. By the middle of the 19th century, Nevsky Prospekt became one of the most comfortable streets.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 31-44" /> Poor people gathered at the corner of Nevsky and Vladimirsky Prospekt for hiring [[Day labor|daily worker]]s, who christened this place "a lousy stock exchange". With the distance from the Fontanka, the volume and height of the houses decreased. On the first floors, often in semi-dark rooms, there were cheap entertainments such as [[Marionette|Puppet Theater]] or wax rooms. The closer to Znamenskaya Square, the more often you come across wooden houses with large yards and vegetable gardens. And the so-called Staro-Nevsky Prospekt with low wooden houses, fences and vast vacant lots looked completely out of the blue. The construction fever in the second half of the 19th century changed the situation. [[Eclecticism (architecture)|eclecticism]] came to replace classicism in architecture. Such structures include the [[Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace]], designed by architect [[Andrei Stackenschneider]] in 1846–48 at the corner with the Fontanka. It was the last [[Private property|private]] palace on Nevsky to be built. During this period, apartment buildings were built on the avenue. Flats or apartments were rented out for profit.  The first floors overlooking the avenue were occupied by shop windows, for example at the [[Optical-mechanical workshop "Oscar Richter"]]. New types of shops appeared on the avenue, which began to be called "passages", the most famous of which was opposite the Gostiny Dvor. The building was designed by architect [[Zhelyazevich, Rudolf Andreevich|R.A. Zhelyazevich]] between 1846 and 1848. Bank buildings have become a common type of specialized structure. House number 62, built in 1896–98 for [[St. Petersburg-Azov Commercial Bank]] by architect [[Girshovich, Boris Ionovich|B.I. Girshovich]].<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 46-64">{{cite book | author = Chesnokova AN | title = Nevsky Prospekt | year = 1985 | place = L. | publisher = Lenizdat | pages = 46–64 | isbn =}}</ref> In 1874, [[Alexandrovsky Garden (St. Petersburg)|Alexandrovsky Garden]] was solemnly opened on the site of Admiralty Square, and over time, its overgrown trees covered the facade of the Admiralty building. In the center of Alexandrovskaya Square in 1873, a [[Monument to Catherine II (St. Petersburg)|monument to Empress Catherine ΙΙ]] was opened, around which a garden was laid out and tall trees were planted. And today the square is like a large green area, which has occupied almost all the free space, leaving small driveways along the Public Library and the Rossi pavilions. The square near the Kazan Cathedral, which appeared at the end of the 19th century, is decorated in a more tactful style – lawns, bushes and a small fountain in the center.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens" />
[[File: Nikolaevsky Rail Terminal. Saint Petersburg.jpg | left|thumb | 300px | Nikolaevsky railway station building. Ligovsky Canal in the foreground <br> Photo 1860s]]
The only square of Nevsky Prospekt, formed during the period of capitalist development, is [[Vosstaniya Square (St. Petersburg)|Znamenskaya Square]]. Its formation was associated with the appearance in 1851 of [[Nikolaevskaya railway|the railway from St. Petersburg to Moscow]] and the construction of the building [[Moskovsky railway station (St. Petersburg)|Nikolaevsky railway station]] at the corner with [[Ligovsky canal]]  designed by the architect [[Konstantin Thon]]. On the contrary, in the early 1850s, the building of one of the largest in the city [[Oktyabrskaya (hotel, St. Petersburg)|Severnaya Hotel]] was built by the architect A.P. Gemilian. The other two sides of the square were built up with "tenement houses" and hotels. As a result, the area got the shape [[trapezoid]]. In 1909, [[Monument to Alexander III (St. Petersburg)|Equestrian monument to the Emperor]] [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]]<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 46-64" /> was erected in the center. The history of public transport in St Petersburg began on Nevsky Prospekt. On 27 August 1863, route 1 [[Horse | horse-drawn railway]] was opened from Nikolaevsky (now Moscow) railway station past Palace Square to [[Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns]]. In the late 1880s, a steam railway was laid from Znamenskaya Square along Staro-Nevsky and further outside the city. The first run [[St. Petersburg tram|St. Petersburg land tram]] started in September 1907 from [[Alexandrovsky Garden (St. Petersburg)|Alexandrovsky Garden]], and on November 11 the first [[St. Petersburg bus|bus]] on the route Aleksandrovsky Sad – [[Baltiyskiy vokzal (St. Petersburg)|Baltiyskiy vokzal]]. After a long break under Soviet rule in 1926, bus traffic was resumed along the avenue along the route Uritskogo Square (Palace Square) – [[Zagorodny Avenue (St. Petersburg)|Zagorodny Avenue]] – [[Vosstaniya Square (St. Petersburg)|square Uprising]].<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 46-64" /><ref name = "St. Petersburg: Encyclopedia">{{cite book  | author = | title = St. Petersburg: Encyclopedia | year = 2006 | place = Moscow | publisher = Russian Political Encyclopedia | pages = 9,882 | isbn =}}</ref><ref name = "St. Petersburg Book of Records">{{cite book | title = Book of Records Petersburg. All the most in the history and life of the city|  author = Editor-compiler Dmitry Sherikh | edition = | type = | place = St. Petersburg | publisher = Ivanov and Leshchinsky | year = 1995 | pages = 183–187 | isbn =}}</ref>
[[File: Eliseev Shop.jpg | left|thumb | 300px | Eliseev brothers' store. View from the Catherine Garden <br> Postcard from the 1910s]]
[[File: Nevsky Prospect 25 1913.jpg | left|thumb | 300px | [[Kazan Cathedral House]], Nevsky Prospect 25; celebrating the [[Romanov Tercentenary|300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty]]; photo by [[Karl Bulla]], 1913]]

By the beginning of the 20th century, modern had gained popularity. In this style in 1902–1904 was built [[House of the company "Singer"|the building of the trading house]] [[Singer Corporation|company "Singer"]] at the corner with the Catherine Canal according to the project of architect [[Pavel Suzor]]. In the same years (1903–1907), according to the project of the architect [[Baranovsky, Gavriil Vasilievich|G. V. Baranovsky]] [[House of the Eliseev Brothers Trade Association|the building of another trade house]] – [[Eliseevs|Eliseev Brothers (merchants)]] was erected. On the first floor, behind the mirrored windows, there is a huge trading hall, and on the second, a theater. Another [[House of Mertens|building]] with a solid glazed facade appeared in 1911–1912, it was built by the architect [[Lalevich, Marian Stanislavovich|M.S. Lalevich]] for the owner of a large company of fur products Mertens (house number 21). A little closer to the Admiralty at the corner of Malaya Morskaya Street according to the project of the architect [[Peretyatkovich, Marian Marianovich|M. M. Peretyatkovich]] a building appeared, built by order of the financier Wawelberg for the St. Petersburg Trade Bank (house number 7/9). In the 1910s, several more similar buildings were erected: the building of the commercial bank "Junker and Co." by the architect [[Van der Gucht, Wilhelm Ivanovich|V. I. Van der Gucht]] (No. 12), building [[St. Petersburg Private Commercial Bank]], designed by architect [[Zeidler, Vladimir Petrovich|V.P. Zeidler]] (No. 1). As capitalism developed on Nevsky Prospekt, new offices and boards of various companies were opened, [[Insurance company|insurance]] and [[Joint-stock company|joint-stock companies]], [[Commission agreement|commissions]]. The largest enterprises of the city had their shops here. By 1917, 29 banks and credit institutions out of 64 existing then in Saint Petersburg, 10 out of 14 banking houses, 22 out of 29 bank offices were located on Nevsky Prospekt. Moreover, the largest banks of the country prevailed on Nevsky: [[Volga-Kama Commercial Bank]] (No. 38), [[Russo-Asiatic Bank]] (No. 62) and many others.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 46-64" />

Nevsky Prospekt became the business and financial center of the city. As the city guidebooks describe the avenue, it has turned into a "life artery", "the center of splendor, luxury and grace of the capital". "Everything brilliant, precious, luxurious is combined here, which only St. Petersburg trade and industry can flaunt." The most famous and largest shopping center was Gostiny Dvor. By the end of the 19th century, [[Gas lamp|gas lighting]] and even electric [[air heating]] large mirrored windows appeared in some shops. There were up to 300 retail premises, the staff was almost 5 thousand people. "Passage" numbered up to 60 shops. The trade turnover of stores on Nevsky was in the millions. Rich merchants had not only shops on the central street of the city, but also tenement houses and hotels. For example, in addition to four stores (No. 47, 59, 71, 76), the V.I. Solovyov trade partnership owned the Palkin restaurant at No. 47, [[Oktyabrskaya (hotel, St. Petersburg)|Bolshaya Severnaya Hotel]] and its branch in house number 51. The advertisement could no longer fit on the first two floors and therefore sometimes occupied the entire facade of the building up to the roof. In clear weather on the sidewalks of the Nevsky metropolitan [[beau monde]]. At the service of wealthy citizens were fashionable hairdressers, tailors, the best photo studios, fashionable restaurants, cafes, pastry shops, and all kinds of clubs. By the end of the 19th century, the end pavement was extended to Znamenskaya Square. Many technical innovations were first tested on Nevsky.<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 46-64" /> From April 17 (29) to May 2 (14), 1879, experiments on electric [[street lighting]] were carried out on Alexandria Square, organized by the partnership [[Yablochkov, Pavel Nikolaevich|P.N. Yablochkova]]. At night, from 10 pm to midnight, the public was shown experiments of "instant extinguishing and ignition" of four electric lanterns out of 12. On the day of the end of the experiment, the monument to the Empress was illuminated with [[Reflector (mirror)|reflectors]].<ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt Gardens"/> On the Moika near the Police Bridge, the first [[power plant]] in St. Petersburg was mounted on a barge. On 30 December 1883, the avenue from Moika to Fontanka, the first in Russia, was illuminated [[Incandescent|electric incandescent lamps]]. Two years later, electricity appeared on the section from Fontanka to Znamenskaya Square. On Nevsky Prospekt in 1882, the first telephone exchange in Russia appeared, which was located in house No. 26. From the tower installed at the top, wires <ref name = "Nevsky Prospekt 46-64" /> were stretched in all directions.

=== 21st century. Modern period ===
In the 1990s, houses Nos. [[Chicherin House|15]], 55, 59, [[Pushkin House|68]], 114 and 116 were completely dismantled. New buildings were erected in their place with a partial or complete reconstruction of the historical façade. The buildings were deliberately brought to accidents by the owners or were recognized as such illegally, the dismantling of buildings was carried out without permits. The appearance of some in the early 2010s was distorted due to the construction of attics (houses no. 3, 64).<ref name = "From creation to the present"/>

From 1999 to 2004, a comprehensive reconstruction of Nevsky Prospekt from the Admiralty to Vosstaniya Square was underway: paving with granite slabs of sidewalks was carried out, communications and engineering networks were changed. In 2005–2006, the facades of almost all buildings were decorated with artistic lighting. In 2008, a lane for public transport was separated from the Admiralty to Vosstaniya Square. On the sidewalks from Vosstaniya Square to Alexander Nevsky Square, the asphalt pavement was replaced with a granite one <ref name = "From creation to the present">{{cite web |url=https://peterburg.center/ln/nevskiy-prospekt.html|title=Невский проспект — история: от создания до современности|access-date=2019-09-09 }}</ref>

Nevsky Prospect is a venue for mass celebrations. On [[New Year]], [[Victory Day]] (May 9) City Day (May 27) and other memorable dates, the avenue from Fontanka to Palace Square turns into a pedestrian zone.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://walkspb.ru/ulpl/nevskiy_pr.html | publisher = Walking in St. Petersburg – an author's project about the history and sights of St. Petersburg | title = Nevsky Prospekt – history and photos | access-date = 2019-12-30 }}</ref> September 12 – on the Day of the Holy Faithful [[Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky|Prince Alexander Nevsky]], along the main thoroughfare of the city there is a traditional religious procession from Kazan Cathedral to Alexander Nevsky Square <ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/26879.5/3923445/|publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda in St. Petersburg | title = Religious procession on Nevsky Prospekt September 12, 2018: street block diagram | access-date = 2019-12-30 }}</ref>

== Nevsky Prospect, 19th century. Engravings ==
<gallery mode="packed-overlay" heights="180" caption="Nevsky Prospect, XIX century. Engravings">
File:Anichkov fontanka.jpg|View of Nevsky Prospect and Anichkov Bridge, 1753
File:Nevsky prospect in 1800.jpg|Nevsky Prospect near Gostiny Dvor, 1799. Printmaking ([[engraving]]) by [[Benjamin Patersen]].
File:Patersen View of Dvortsovaya Square from Nevsky Prospekt (oil) 1801.jpg|"View of the Palace Square and the Winter Palace from the beginning of Nevsky Prospect", 1801. [[Engraving]] by [[Benjamin Patersen]].
File:Znamenka.jpg|The avenue near the [[Moskovsky railway station (Saint Petersburg)|Nicholas Station]], 1890s. Engraving by [[Benjamin Patersen]].
File:Fontanka.jpg|The [[Fontanka]] River at the Anichkov Bridge. 19th or early 20th century
File:Anichkov-1830.jpg|Panorama of Nevsky Prospect, 1830s. Engraving by [[Vasily Sadovnikov]]. 
File:Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace and Anichkov Bridge St. Petersburg.jpg|Anichkov Bridge and the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, 1850s. Engraving by Charlemagne. 
</gallery>

== History of the name ==
=== 20th century ===
During the early Soviet years (1918–44) the name of Nevsky Prospect was changed, first and briefly to "Proletkult Street" ''(Ulitsa Proletkul'ta)'' in honor of [[Proletkult|that Soviet artistic organization]].<ref>Lynn Mally, ''Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia.''  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990; pg. 44.</ref> Following the demise of [[Proletkult]] already around 1920 the name was changed again, this time to "Avenue of the 25th of October", alluding to the day of the [[October Revolution]]: the name never took on in the daily language of the city's inhabitants who continued to use the pre-revolutionary name. During the [[siege of Leningrad]] (1941–1944) some walls on the north side of Nevsky Prospect were stencilled with the inscription "[[Citizens! During shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous]]", warning passers-by of the areas most at risk from German artillery bombardment.<ref name="YB">{{cite web|first= Yan|last= Bratskiy|url= https://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201811191309-kuqz.htm|title=В Петербурге вандалы закрасили историческую надпись "При артобстреле эта сторона улицы наиболее опасна"|date= 19 November 2018|access-date= 1 May 2019|publisher= [[Zvezda (TV channel)|Zvezda]]|language= ru}}</ref> In 1962, the inscription was recreated on school building No. 210 on Nevsky Prospect through the initiative of poet [[Mikhail Dudin]].<ref name="YB"/><ref name="IS">{{cite book|first= Inna Arkadevna|last= Soboleva|title= Утраченный Петербург|year= 2011|publisher= Издательский дом "Питер"|isbn= 9785459003901|language= ru|page= 132}}</ref> The inscription, and other examples across the city, are considered war memorials and are frequently the site of commemorations of the siege. In January 2019 [[Governor of Saint Petersburg]] [[Alexander Beglov]] laid flowers at the inscription on Nevsky Prospect.<ref name="AB">{{cite web|url= https://www.5-tv.ru/news/237539/aleksandr-beglov-vozlozil-cvety-kpamatnoj-nadpisi-nanevskom-prospekte/|title= Александр Беглов возложил цветы к памятной надписи на Невском проспекте|date= 26 January 2019|access-date= 1 May 2019|publisher= 5-Родной|language= ru}}</ref>

At the end of the siege of Leningrad, in January 1944, the name ''Nevsky Prospect'' was formally restored and has remained ever since.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hellopiter.ru/The_neva_prospectus.html | title=Невский проспект.Санкт-Петербург }}</ref>

== Significance ==
The Nevsky today functions as the main thoroughfare in [[Saint Petersburg]]. The majority of the city's shopping and nightlife takes place on or immediately off Nevsky Prospekt.

The street is served by the stations [[Admiralteyskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)|Admiralteyskaya]], [[Nevsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)|Nevsky Prospekt]], [[Gostiny Dvor (Saint Petersburg Metro)|Gostiny Dvor]], [[Mayakovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)|Mayakovskaya]], [[Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Saint Petersburg Metro)|Ploshchad Vosstaniya]] and [[Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I (Saint Petersburg Metro)|Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I]] of [[Saint Petersburg Metro]].<ref>
[http://www.nevsky-prospekt.com/home.html Nevsky Prospekt] – "The Prospekt has five Metro stations along its length, with each having its own unique identity. These are; "Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo", "Ploshchad Vosstaniya", "Mayakovskaya", "Gostinyy Dvor" and "Nevsky Prospekt". A sixth station called 'Admiralty' has just been built on the M5 line just off Nevsky on Bolshaya Morskaya ul."
</ref>

== Sightseeings of the Nevsky Prospekt ==

[[File:Невский проспект (5).jpg|alt=This is a photo of House of the company "Singer" (also known as "House of Books"), a cultural heritage object in Russia, located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the Griboyedov Canal, directly opposite the Kazan Cathedral. It is recognized as a historical landmark.|thumb|250x250px|This is a photo of [[Singer House|House of the company "Singer"]] (also known as "House of Books"), a [[Cultural heritage|cultural heritage object]] in Russia, located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the [[Griboyedov Canal]], directly opposite the [[Kazan Cathedral, Saint Petersburg|Kazan Cathedral]]. It is recognized as a [[Tourist attraction|historical and tourist landmark]].]]

Major sights include the [[Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli|Rastrelliesque]] [[Stroganov Palace]], the grand [[Neoclassicism|neoclassical]] [[Kazan Cathedral, Saint Petersburg|Kazan Cathedral]], the [[Art Nouveau]] [[Singer House|''Bookhouse'']] (originally the Singer House), [[Eliseyev Emporium (Saint Petersburg)|Elisseeff Emporium]], half a dozen 18th-century churches, a monument to [[Catherine the Great]], the [[Great Gostiny Dvor]], the [[Passage (department store)|Passage]], the [[National Library of Russia|Russian National Library]], the [[Alexandrinsky Theatre]], and the [[Anichkov Bridge]] with its horse statues. Nevsky Prospekt is a part of [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site|World Heritage]] list.<ref>{{cite web
 |language      = en
 |url         = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/540
 |title       = Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
 |publisher   = UNESCO World Heritage Centre
 |access-date  = 2020-12-04
}}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed-overlay" heights="180" caption="Singer House">
File:Singer House SPB 01.jpg|alt=Frontal view of the Singer House, located at the Nevsky prospect (photo)|Frontal view of the Singer House, located at the Nevsky prospect
File:Eath-ball.JPG|The tower with the globe on the top
File:Дом Зингера 4.jpg|alt=Singer House' sculptures on the facade|Sculptures on the facade
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<gallery mode="packed-overlay" heights="180" caption="Anichkov Bridge">
File:Sculptures on Anichkov Bridge 01.jpg|alt=The Horse Tamers, on the Anichkov Bridge, designed by the Russian sculptor, Baron Peter Klodt von Jurgensburg. The silhouettes of the sculptural groups on high pedestals are so expressive that they ensured incredible success for this monument. (photo)|''[[Anichkov Bridge|The Horse Tamers]]'', on the Anichkov Bridge, designed by the Russian sculptor, Baron [[Peter Klodt von Jurgensburg]]. The silhouettes of the sculptural groups on high pedestals are so expressive that they ensured incredible success for this monument.
File:Sculptures on Anichkov Bridge 03.jpg|alt=The Horse Tamers, on the Anichkov Bridge, designed by the Russian sculptor, Baron Peter Klodt von Jurgensburg. The silhouettes of the sculptural groups on high pedestals are so expressive that they ensured incredible success for this monument. (photo)|''[[Anichkov Bridge|The Horse Tamers]]'', on the Anichkov Bridge, designed by the Russian sculptor, Baron [[Peter Klodt von Jurgensburg]]. The silhouettes of the sculptural groups on high pedestals are so expressive that they ensured incredible success for this monument.
</gallery>

== Nevsky prospect in the Russian classic literature of the 19th century ==
[[Nikolai Gogol]] described the feverish life of the avenue in his story [[Nevsky Prospekt (story)|"Nevsky Prospekt"]], published in 1835. [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] often employed Nevsky Prospekt as a setting in his works, such as ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' (1866) and [[The Double (Dostoevsky novel)|''The Double: A Petersburg Poem'']] (1846). The café-restaurant which the famous writers of the 19th-century [[Russian literature#Golden Age|Golden Age of the Russian literature]] frequented still remains as [[Literaturnoye Kafe (Saint Petersburg)|"Literary Cafe"]] on Nevsky Prospect.

{{Verse translation|lang=ru|italicsoff=|rtl1=|Нет ничего лучше Невского проспекта, по крайней мере в Петербурге; для него он составляет всё. Чем не блестит эта улица — красавица нашей столицы! Я знаю, что ни один из бледных и чиновных её жителей не променяет на все блага Невского проспекта. Не только кто имеет двадцать пять лет от роду, прекрасные усы и удивительно сшитый сюртук, но даже тот, у кого на подбородке выскакивают белые волоса и голова гладка, как серебряное блюдо, и тот в восторге от Невского проспекта. А дамы! О, дамам ещё больше приятен Невский проспект. Да и кому же он не приятен? Едва только взойдешь на Невский проспект, как уже пахнет одним гуляньем. Хотя бы имел какое-нибудь нужное, необходимое дело, но, взошедши на него, верно, позабудешь о всяком деле. Здесь единственное место, где показываются люди не по необходимости, куда не загнала их надобность и меркантильный интерес, объемлющий весь Петербург.|There is nothing better than Nevsky Prospect, at least in St. Petersburg; for the city, it is everything. How it shines– the beauty of our capital! I know that none of its pale and bureaucratic residents would exchange Nevsky Prospekt for any number of riches. Not only he who is twenty-five years old, with a wonderful mustache and an astonishingly tailored frock coat, but even someone with white hair popping out on their chin and a head as smooth as a silver dish is delighted with Nevsky Prospect. And the ladies! Oh, the ladies are even more pleased with Nevsky Prospect. And who doesn't like it? As soon as you climb onto Nevsky Prospekt, it already smells of promenades. One may have some necessary, indispensable business, but, having walked on to Nevsky Prospekt, you will surely forget about any sort of business at all. Here is the only place where people don't go out of necessity, where their needs and mercantile interest, which embraces the whole of Petersburg, has not driven them.|attr1=Excerpt from Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story "Nevsky Prospekt".|attr2=}}

==See also==
*[[List of upscale shopping districts]]

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist|refs=
 <ref name="Bogdanov">{{cite book| author = [[Богданов, Андрей Иванович|А. И. Богданов]] | chapter = Предисловие| chapter-url = | format = | url = http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/rus11/Bogdanov/pred2.phtml?id=175 | title = Описание Санктпетербурга | orig-year = | agency =  | edition =   |location= Санкт-Петербург |date = 1997 |publisher= Северо-Западная Библейская Комиссия. Санкт-Петербургский филиал Архива Российской Академии наук |at=  |volume=  | pages = | page =  | series =  | isbn = }}</ref>
 <ref name="Main street">{{Cite journal |author = Доктор геолого-минералогических наук С. Шульц (младший) |editor=  |format= |url= http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/6821/ |title= Главная улица Санкт-Петербурга |type= Журнал |orig-year= | agency =  |edition= [[Наука и жизнь]]  |location= Moscow |year= 2001 |publisher=  |at=  |volume=  |issue= 9 |pages =  |page=  |series=  |isbn =  |issn =  |doi =  |bibcode =  |arxiv =  |pmid =  |archive-url =  |archive-date =  |language= ru |quote= |website=nkj.ru  }}</ref>
<ref name="Notable">{{cite book|title=Невский Проспект|year=1985|chapter=Самая знатная улица|trans-title=Nevsky Prospect}}</ref>
<ref name="Parade">{{cite book|title=Невский Проспект|year=1985|chapter=Парадный въезд в новую страницу|trans-title=Nevsky Prospect}}</ref>
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