Anichkov Bridge

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Fontanka

The Anitschkow Bridge (Russian Аничков мост ) in Saint Petersburg crosses the Fontanka River in the wake of the Nevsky Prospect.

It was named after Lt. Col. engineer Mikhail Anitschkow whose battalion was stationed during the reign of Empress Anna Ivanovna nearby. The first wooden bridge was not built in 1715 by the Engineering Battalion Anitschkows on orders of Peter the Great.

Internationally known, the bridge is mainly by the sculptures " horse tamer " of the Baltic German sculptor Peter Clodt of Jürgensburg.

After the bridge, which was built in 1754 adjacent Anitschkow palace was named on Nevsky Prospekt.