Domelike hall of the senate (Moscow)
Russia /
Moscow /
Moscow /
Kreml
World
/ Russia
/ Moscow
/ Moscow
, 0 km from center (Москва)
World / Russia / Moscow City / Central
function hall, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage
Round domelike hall is the center of the composition of the senate; it is located in the apex of triangle on the plan of building and it is inverted by its facade to the side of the ceremonial (entrance) part of the internal court. Its decorating spectacular circular colonnade of Corinthian warrant (outside - [doricheskogo]) is crowned by the wide, decorated with bas reliefs cornice, above which is raised on the drum the enormous cupola of round hall. [M].[F].[Kazakov] was organically included the cupola of the round hall of the senate in Kremlin architectural ensemble. Located on one axis with the senate tower of Kremlin wall, which notes the transverse axis of Red Square, the cupola of the senate thus is connected with it and with the walls of the Kremlin into the united harmonic means.
The place is located in Senate Palace (President's Residency)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°45'11"N 37°37'8"E
- Senate Palace (President's Residency) 0.1 km
- Earlier the Middle Trading Rows 0.3 km
- GUM 0.3 km
- Gostiny Dvor 0.4 km
- Section of the historic Kitai Gorod wall and towers 0.7 km
- The Polytechnic Museum (under revamp) 0.8 km
- Ilyinsky Public Garden 0.8 km
- Headquarters of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (old building) 1.1 km
- Central Bank of Russia 1.2 km
- Birja, Finam offices 1.7 km
- Red Square 0.1 km
- GUM 0.2 km
- Kremlin (Borovitsky) Hill 0.3 km
- Tsentralny Administrative Okrug 0.3 km
- Taynitsky Garden 0.3 km
- Manezhnaya Square 0.4 km
- Kitay-gorod 0.4 km
- Bely Gorod ('The White Town') 0.4 km
- Tverskoy District 2 km
- Moscow 24 km