Vosstaniya Square
square in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Vosstaniya Square (Russian: Плóщадь Восстáния, romanized: Plóshchad' Vosstániya, IPA: [ˈploɕːɪtʲ vɐsːˈtanʲɪjə], lit. 'Uprising Square'), before 1918 Znamenskaya Square (Russian: Знаме́нская пло́щадь, lit. 'Square of the Sign'), is a major square in the Central Business District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The square lies at the crossing of Nevsky Prospekt, Ligovsky Prospekt, Vosstaniya Street and Goncharnaya Street, in front of the Moskovsky Rail Terminal, which is the northern terminus of the line connecting the city with Moscow. Administratively, the Vosstaniya Square falls under the authority of the Tsentralny District.
History
From the 1840s to 1918, the square was known as Znamenskaya Square, after the Cathedral of the Sign built there between 1794 and 1804 in a Neoclassical design by Fedor Demertsov. The church building commemorated the icon of Our Lady of the Sign.
Four years before the Romanov Tercentenary, in 1909, Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy, an artist and sculptor, completed a tremendous equestrian statue of Tsar Alexander III. It stood opposite Nikolayevsky Station in Znamenskaya Square. The statue was removed by the Soviet regime in 1937. It remained in storage for fifty years before its re-erection in 1994 in front of the Marble Palace.
The square was a scene of many revolutionary demonstrations and protests.
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