- Explore the stunning Rostral Columns on the picturesque Spit of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg.
- Rostral Column on Vasilievsky Island, St. Petersburg. ... Saint-Petersburg, Rostral column with a statue of the Neva on Vasilievsky island.
- Lighthouses are lit only on special occasions. The columns received their name as a sign of the metal images of the rosters on their trunks - the nasal parts of ships.
- One of the two Rostral Columns on the Spit of the St.Basil island (Vasilievsky island), built by architect Toma de Tomona in 1806. Sign in or register, to download.
- This is one out of two rostral columns that are erected on either side of the Old Stock Exchange on the Spit of Vasilievsky Island...
- What can you find at the Vasilievsky Island Spit today? The Rostral Columns and Old Stock Exchange, best seen from Birzhevoy Square.
- The spit of Vasilyevsky Island relates to the elongate portion of the Vasilyevsky Island on the east. ... On the Exchange sides there are symmetrical rostral Columns.
- The cape of Vasilievsky Island is called “a spit” (arrow) because of its shape (it sticks out into the Neva River in the shape of a spit and divides it into two estuaries.
- Standing on Vasilievsky Spit is one of the more classical architectural assemblies in St Petersburg: the Stock Exchange and the Rostral Columns.