The artist is the Mayer
A native of the German city of Nuremberg Johann Georg Mayr was invited to St. Petersburg in 1778 to the post of drawing master at the Academy of Sciences. Between 1796 and 1803, he performed a picturesque series of species of St. Petersburg dedicated to the centenary of the city. Nine works of this series are stored in the State Russian Museum, including this picture.
In the foreground is the Kryukov Canal embankment, on the square – the building of a large (stone) theater. Near the theater – six arbors "From wild stone" with an iron roof, where the coachman was warmed up at the bonfires. On the right is the Ascension Church (1769, architect A. Rinaldi, destroyed in 1936).
Bolshoi Theater (Stone theater) – St. Petersburg Theater, which existed in 1784-1886. Was on theater square. Massive building of the theater, begun A.Rinaldi, and completed by architects f. AT. von Baur and m. AND. Dedenev according to the project l. – F. Tishbeina, had a modestly designed facade decorated with doric pilasters. In 1802-1805, the building was rebuilt according to the project of the architect Tom de Thomon, who increased the volume of the building for a larger capacity and added an eight -column ionic portico with a high -classing high -classing porch from the main facade. In 1886, the building of the Stone theater was dismantled and rebuilt into the modern building of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
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