In Russia, Trezzini built masterpieces such as the Peter and Paul Fortress and Peter the Great's Summer Palace in St. Petersburg. ... Composer Domenico Cimarosa spent three years in Russia.

Swiss-Italian engineer Domenico Trezzini was charged with implementing the tsar’s vision for a new style of Russian architecture, including the replacement of the earthen walls of the original ...

In 1993 Bunny and I were in St Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, built by Peter the Great and lauded as the ‘Venice of the North’ because of its Italianate architecture designed by ...