The first architectural competition was held in Russia in 1718 , the year. Competition was imposed on the building project , which is going to build for the twelve Board members ( government agencies ): 10 ministries , the Senate and the Synod.In this contest the contest won a famous Italian architect Domenico Trezzini that the basis for its project took a principle of construction of buildings orders in Moscow , who stood in a line along the Kremlin. Such a line of houses for colleagues and offered to build an architect.
Begun in 1722 , the year construction was completed only in 1742 , the year, this delay was associated with a temporary transfer of the capital from 1725 to 1732 -th -th year.
A building with a total length of 400 meters , Soto twelve separate parts of kazhdpya kotoryya prinazhdezhala individual ministries.Long Boards of the building was supposed to limit the home while in town square - Collegiate , but after the death of Peter I moved the administrative center outside the Vasilevsky Island , and in the early XX vekap and built up at all traditional birth Clinical Institute (now the famous Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology . Ott ).
In 1819 , the year the building was founded by Boards of St. Petersburg University . Among the students and faculty were AMButlerov , Sechenov , Popov , P. Lesgaft , Chernyshevsky and many others. From 1866 to 1890 he lived and worked here Mendeleev . Today, the Twelve Colleges building is the main building of the University.
In February 2007, the main entrance to the building of a monument was unveiled at the University \
V fevrale 2007 goda pered glavnym vhodom v zdanie Universiteta byl otkryt pamyatnik \u0026laquo;Universantu-Geniyu\u0026raquo;.
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