File:Winter Palace and the Alexander Column (20956428660).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionWinter Palace and the Alexander Column (20956428660).jpg |
Palace Square (Дворцо́вая пло́щадь), connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire. It was the setting of many events of worldwide significance, including the Bloody Sunday (1905) and the October Revolution of 1917. The earliest and most celebrated building on the square is the baroque white-and-azure Winter Palace of Russian tsars (1754–62), which gave the square its name. Although the adjacent buildings are designed in the Neoclassical style, they perfectly match the palace in their scale, rhythm, and monumentality. The opposite, southern side of the square was designed in the shape of an arc by George von Velten in the late 18th century. These plans were executed half a century later, when Alexander I of Russia envisaged the square as a vast monument to the Russian victory over Napoleon and commissioned Carlo Rossi to design the bow-shaped Empire-style Building of the General Staff (1819–29), which centers on a double triumphal arch crowned with a Roman quadriga. The centre of the square is marked with the Alexander Column (1830–34), designed by Auguste de Montferrand. This red granite column (the tallest of its kind in the world) is 47.5 metres high and weighs some 500 tons. It is set so well that no attachment to the base is needed. The eastern side of the square is occupied by Alessandro Brullo's building of the Guards Corps Headquarters (1837–43). The western side, however, opens towards Admiralty Square, thus making the Palace Square a vital part of the grand suite of St Petersburg squares [Wikipedia.org] |
Date | Taken on 7 October 2014, 20:35 |
Source | Winter Palace and the Alexander Column |
Author | Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia |
Camera location | 59° 56′ 20.57″ N, 30° 18′ 56.81″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 59.939047; 30.315781 |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Camera model | NIKON D800 |
Exposure time | 1/400 sec (0.0025) |
F-number | f/11 |
ISO speed rating | 400 |
Date and time of data generation | 20:35, 7 October 2014 |
Lens focal length | 34 mm |
Horizontal resolution | 240 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 240 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 06:07, 31 August 2015 |
Exposure Program | Normal program |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 20:35, 7 October 2014 |
APEX shutter speed | 8.643856 |
APEX aperture | 6.918863 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 10 |
DateTimeDigitized subseconds | 10 |
Color space | sRGB |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 34 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Scene control | Low gain up |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Unknown |
Serial number of camera | 8054054 |
Lens used | 24.0-120.0 mm f/4.0 |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:07, 31 August 2015 |
Unique ID of original document | 00D3EF35D44276FD7C5EB8F11F32A35E |
IIM version | 4 |