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Stachek Square
1827-34. Architect V.Stasov
The arch was put up to commemorate the victory
over Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812. After
the war ended, a wooden triumphal arch was put
up in the Narvskoye Road to a design by
Quarenghi for the ceremonial meeting of the
returning troops. In the 1820s V.Stasov
developed a new design, that retained the
general features of the previous one. He
suggested using brick as the construction
material, supplemented with copper sheet facing.
This was an innovation in Russian and West
European constriction practice.The Narva Arch
created by Stasov is an imitation of the Old
Roman triumphal arches. It is topped with the
Chariot of Glory (the horses performed by
P.Klodt, the figure of Glory-by S.Pimenov). At the
foot of the gates there stand four statues of Old
Russian warriors (sculptors S.Pimenov and
V.Demuth-Malinovsky).Inside the gates there is a
room that V.Stasov was planning to use as an
exhibition hall devoted to the history of the Narva
Arch construction.