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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Triumphal arch
A triumphal arch is a structure in the shape of a monumental archway, usually built to celebrate a victory in war.
In its simplest form a triumphal arch consists of two pillars connected by an arch, crowned with a superstructure or attic on which a statue might be mounted or which bears commemorative inscriptions.
Triumphal arches in the Roman style were revived during the Renaissance, when there was a Europe-wide upwelling of interest in the art and architecture of ancient Rome.
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 Narva Triumphal Gate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Narva Triumphal Gate (Russian: На́рвские триумфа́льные воро́та) was erected in the vast Narva Square (known as the Stachek Square in Soviet years), Saint Petersburg, in 1814 to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon.
The architect of the original Narva Gate was Giacomo Quarenghi.
Between 1827 and 1834 Vasily Stasov redesigned and rebuilt the gate in stone.
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 "Wandering Camera" - Notes about St.Petersburg and it's suburbs
The entrance to the Gate from the underground passage.
On the height of 15 meters-the triumphal chariot of the Victory from the forged copper.
The Gates were made from bricks and panneled with copper sheets (near 90 tonnes of copper).
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 The Narva Gate in St. Petersburg, Russia
The Narva Triumphal Arch was erected as a memorial to the war of 1812.
The Narva Triumphal Arch was specially constructed on the Narva highway to greet the soldiers who were returning from abroad after their victory over Napoleon.
The single bay triumphal arch's composition is similar to the ancient Roman triumphal arches, which were normally built on a square near an entry to the city.
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 The Moscow Gate in St. Petersburg, Russia
The Moscow Triumphal Gates (1834-38) were erected in the memory of the Russian victory in the Russo-Turkish war of 1828.
At first, city leaders planned to place the triumphal gates by Obvodny Canal but as the city limits expanded further to the south the site for the gates was moved to the intersection of the Moscow highway and the Ligovsky Canal.
In fact, he originally developed two different designs for the gates before a life-size model of one of the designs was erected, and the project was confirmed on September 14, 1834.
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 Triumphal arch information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
By the 2nd century arches were being erected to commemorate other events, such as the surviving triumphal arch at Ancona, erected by a grateful city to commemorate Trajan's improvements to the harbor.
Red Gate in Moscow used to be a rare example of a baroque triumphal arch.
Temporary triumphal arch commemorating election of Emilio Aguinaldo as President of the Philippines, 1899
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 Take a BrainSip (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Narva Triumphal Gate, was erected in the vast Narva Square (known as the Stachek Square in Soviet years), St Petersburg, 1827 - 1834, to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon.
The architect was Vasily Stasov, and the program was meant to respond to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, originally erected to celebrate Napoleon's victory over the Allies at Austerlitz.
Nike, the Goddess of Victory surmounts the arch, in a Triumphal car drawn by six horses instead of the traditional Quadriga.
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 Triumphal arch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The triumphal arch erected to honor Hadrian who visitied Antalya in 2nd century A.D. The Soldiers and Sailors Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
Arch of Hadrian in central Athens, with the Acropolis seen in the background.
A triumphal arch built to commemorate soldiers who died fighting the French for independence.
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 History of St Petersburg Russia
The Narva Quarter is south of Kolomenskaya and contains the main industrial section, the harbor, and railroad stations for lines to the south.
A gate in the left face of the ravelin, in turn, was connected to the next island by another bridge.
Inside the gate there would be a very impressive cathedral with five poles, several churches and chapels, various buildings, dormitories etc. However, very little came of all these grandiose projects with the exception of the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.
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 The odd Russia site - A view from an outsider on the inside
Don't be put off by the checkpoint at the main gate - the militia school which owns it has returned half the grounds to the church, and now cohabits uneasily with jovial monks.
Be sure to study the map at the gate before entering - signposts in the park are rare and often misleading, and thick plantings of trees make orientation difficult.
Ivangorod and Narva have always been rivals; now they are once again on opposing sides, as Russia and Estonia squabble over citizenship, frontiers, and other post-Soviet matters.
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 Zadar  - Sightseeing & Culture  - Essential Zadar  Croatia  - City Gates - In ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It's considered one of the finest monuments of the Venetian rule in Dalmatia, and has the form of a triumphal arch with a central passage for wheeled traffic, and two smaller side arches for pedestrians.
Between the ferryport and market is the Harbour Gate (also known as St Chrysogonus' Gate, because of its proximity to the church of the same name), built in 1573 to celebrate the victory of the Christian fleet over the Turks at Lepanto.
Near the bridge on the north side is the neo-Renaissance Bridge Gate, knocked through by the Italians only 70 years ago, and leading directly to Narodni trg and the Kalelarga.
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 peter
From there we went to the Narva Triumphal Gates (a victory arch at the site of one of the old city's gates) topped with a statue of the winged goddess of victory, Nike, in a chariot driven by six horses.
She declared the ancient gates open for Russia and prayed for the removal of any veils that blind eyes to the knowledge of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:16-17).
In relief over the main gate and under the spire Neptune (Poseidon), the god of the sea, is shown giving his trident to a mortal.
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 Gatorsports.com :: 100 years of Gator Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Trajan's Arch in Timgad, Algeria Image:Archofconstantine.jpgThe Arch of Constantine, Rome Image:ArchGlanum.jpgThe triumphal arch of Glanum Image:Berlin-brandenburg-gate.jpgThe Brandenburg Gate Image:Poklonka.jpgTriumphal arch on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow Image:Moscow Triumphal Gates.jpg
Petersburg Image:Puerta de Alcalá.jpgPuerta de Alcalá is a triumphal arch forming a monumental gateway to Madrid Image:Sankt Petersburg Narva Triumphal Arch 2005 a.jpgNarva Triuphal Gates in St.
Image:AguinaldoTriumphalArch.jpgTemporary triumphal arch commemorating election of Emilio Aguinaldo as President of the Philippines, 1899
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 Voyages and Travels Illustrated: Russia: St. Petersburg and Environs
They span the two roads which connect the city with her most important territories; the one the road to Narva and the Baltic provinces, the other, the Moscow road, leading to the heart of the empire.
The former, called the Triumphal Arch of Narva (see opposite page), commemorates the return of the victorious Russian troops in 1815.
In the square before the chief gate stands a monument, insignificant enough as a work of art, which Paul erected to Peter the Great, with the inscription, "Prodãdu Pravnuk" (the grandson to the grandfather).
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 ELIAN TRAVEL / St. Petersburg Monuments
The cemetery's date-marked common graves stand as a constant reminder of those thousands of heroic citizens who died protecting the city from the Nazis.
This triumphal arch was built between 1827 and 1834 to commemorate the victory of Russia and its allies in the war with Napoleon in 1812-14.
This triumphal arch, which stands on the city's southbound Moskovsky Prospekt, was built between 1834 and 1838 in memory of Russia's victory in the 1828-29 War with Turkey.
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 Narva Did You Mean narva?
About 95% of the current population of Narva are Russian-speakers, mostly either Soviet-era immigrants from parts of the former U.S.S.R. (mainly Russia) or their descendants.
In the 16th century, Russian traders at Narva were soon ousted first by the Dutch, then by the Swedes, who took over Narva in 1581, during the Livonian War.
Across the Narva River there is a Russian fortress Ivangorod, founded by Great Duke Ivan III of Muscovy in 1492 and sometimes referred to as Counter-Narva.
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 The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
The climax of the Russian Imperial Guards victories became its triumphant return from Paris on 30 July 1814.
The household troops, led by Alexander I, marched into the capital through the Narva Triumphal Gate.
The heroic enthusiasm and romantic state of mind that governed the Guards after the battles and campaigns were replaced with the routine procedures at the barracks and on the parade-grounds.
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 Gatorsports.com :: 100 years of Gator Football
This ponderous Empire-style edifice, erected on the spot of the first church of Kievan Rus' and containing the relics of Saint Vladimir, was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the 1930s.
During the reign of Nicholas I, Stasov designed Moscow Triumphal Gates and Narva Triumphal Gates in St Petersburg and the present-day Presidential Palace in Vilnius.
In 1833, he was approached by the Siberian Cossacks who asked him to produce a large cathedral in Omsk.
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 Architecture of Rus - ArchitectureofRus
Up to the twentieth century, only the Golden Gates of Vladimir, despite much eighteenth-century restoration, could be regarded as an authentic monument of the pre-Mongolian period.
During the reign of Empress Anna and Elizaveta Petrovna, the Russian architecture was dominated by a luxurious Baroque style of Bartolomeo Rastrelli whose signature buildings include the Winter Palace, the Catherine Palace, and the Smolny Cathedral.
Alexander I of Russia favoured the Empire Style, as evidenced by the Kazan Cathedral, the Admiralty, the Bolshoi Theatre, St Isaac's Cathedral, and the Narva Triumphal Gates.
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After changing her name from Zoë to Sophia, and making a triumphal journey through Russia, this daughter of the Emperors reached Moscow and became the bride of Ivan III.
Moscow had long been the ecclesiastical head of Russia; now she was the spiritual head of the Church in the East, and her ruling family was joined to that of the Caesars.
At the Battle of Narva (1700) there were two surprises: one when Peter found that he knew almost nothing about the art of warfare, and the other when it was revealed to Charles XII.
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He comes to terms with the senate, and with their consent sets up a rival emperor (rivaling Honorius) and invests the prefect of the city, a Creek named Attalus, with the diadem and the purple robe.
0410 August 24 Alaric and his Goths burst into Rome by the Salarian gate on the north-east of the city, and she who was of late the mistress of the world lay at the feet of the barbarians.
Before Laminas, Ethelfleda conquers Derby, but four of her dearest thanes are killed within the gates.
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 Monuments and Memorials in St. Petersburg (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Narva Gate - This triumphal arch was built between 1827 and 1834 to commemorate the victory of Russia and its allies in the war with Napoleon in 1812-14.
The Moscow Gate - This triumphal arch, which stands on the city's southbound Moskovsky Prospekt, was built between 1834 and 1838 in memory of Russia's victory in the 1828-29 War with Turkey.
Monument to Peter the Great (opposite the Mikhailovsky Castle) - This Romanesque equestrian statue was created by the Italian architect Carlo Rastrelli soon after Peter the Great's death, although the statue wasn't erected as a monument until the very end of the 18th century.
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 WWII: world war 2 picture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
World War II Clockwise from top: Allied landing on Normandy beaches on D-Day, the gate of a Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Red Army soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, the Nagasaki atom bomb, and the 1936 Nuremberg Rally.
Nevertheless, the Soviets dismantled as much industry as possible ahead of the advancing Axis forces, moving it to areas east of the Ural Mountains for reassembly, and ultimately resupplying the Soviet armies and contributing mightily to the destruction of Germany.
By late November, the Axis had reached a line at the gates of Leningrad, Moscow, and Rostov, at the cost of about 23 percent casualties.
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He wished to set to work immediately, and was with difficulty persuaded to wait for the fire-works and the triumphal arch prepared in his honor; but as soon as the last fires had burnt out, in spite of all entreaties, he set out on his yacht for Zaandam to fetch his tools.
Hoffmann wrote to the Austrian Court that Peter expressed himself unfa- vorably to the limitation of royal power by a parliament; but according to a Russian account he said: It is pleasant to hear how the sons of the fatherland tell the truth plainly to the King; we must learn that from the English.
A spirit of proselytism, a desire to propa- gate ones own religious, social and political views, is implanted in the Anglo-Saxon breast at least, if indeed it be not common to the human race.
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 Cruising the Baltic Travel Writing and Photography by Lee Foster
The green Narva Triumphal Arch recalls the Russian successes against Napoleon in 1812.
While driving around the city, you'll see a people struggling to survive amidst momentous upheaval as the country changes from a command economy to a market-driven system.
At the Reichstag, a traveler ponders the swift-moving events in modern Germany, where The Wall came down only in 1989 and the country was officially united only in 1990.
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