Central Saint Petersburg in the context of Great Gostiny Dvor

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The Palace Embankment or Palace Quay (Russian: Дворцовая набережная, romanized: Dvortsovaya naberezhnaya) is a street along the Neva River in Central Saint Petersburg, Russia, which contains the complex of the Hermitage Museum buildings (including the Winter Palace), the Hermitage Theatre, the New Michael Palace, the Saltykov Mansion and the Summer Garden.

The Summer Garden (Russian: Летний сад, romanized: Letny sad) is a historic public garden that occupies an eponymous island between the Neva, Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great. Its inception dates back to the early 18th century when Russia took these lands from Sweden in the Great Northern War. Being a monument of landscape architecture featuring original and copied sculptures of classical mythology characters, a former royal palace and a monument to the fable author Ivan Krylov, the garden is now a branch of the Saint Petersburg-based national art treasury Russian Museum.

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The English Embankment (Russian: Англи́йская на́бережная; Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya) or English Quay is a street along the left bank of the Bolshaya Neva River in Central Saint Petersburg. It has been historically one of the most fashionable streets in Saint Petersburg, and in the 19th century was called by the French term, Promenade des Anglais. It was from the English Embankment that at 2 am on October 25, 1917, the gunshot from the Aurora sent the signal to storm the Winter Palace during the Russian Revolution.

The Main Admiralty Building (Russian: Зда́ние Гла́вного адмиралте́йства), is a historic building complex located in the Central Saint Petersburg area of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the current headquarters of the Russian Navy and the formerly the Admiralty Board of the Imperial Russian Navy. It is one of the original buildings of Saint Peterburg commissioned by Peter the Great and its spire serves as the focal point of the old city's three main streets: Nevsky Prospect, Gorokhovaya Street, and Voznesensky Avenue.

The Admiralty was originally designed as a fortified shipyard in 1704 which was later surrounded by five bastions protected by a moat. It was rebuilt between 1806 and 1823 to Andreyan Zakharov's design in the Empire Style, lining the Admiralty Embankment along the Great Neva river, demolishing the bastions to create Alexander Garden. It housed the engineering school of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy from 1927 until it was relocated to Pushkin in 1998, and the headquarters of the Leningrad Naval Base until 2009. The Russian Navy returned its headquarters to the Admiralty building in 2012.