Petersburg».

In 1703. Peter I laid at the mouth of the Neva a new capital of the Russian state. Six years later, he transforms the order of stone affairs into the office of buildings, in which he opens a school for teaching the beginning of architecture; orders Petersburg to build according to exemplary (typical) projects, different for “vile”, “wealthy” and “eminent”; Stone construction by decree of 1714. It prohibits everywhere, while «pleasure in the structure in St. Petersburg». In stone and brick, they are built in 1727. The Admiralty, which was first laid down by wooden; in 1712 — 1733 — Peter and Paul Cathedral; The building of the twelve colleges in 1722 — 1733., Summer palace; Palace of Menshikov and others. About 15 million. pieces of brick per year produced then brick sheds on the Neva, Tosnu and Black, on Ladog and in Novgorod.