Inside The Brutal Courtyards of Saint Petersburg, Russia

St Petersburg, Russia is famous for it's significant architecture, embankments, rivers and canals, bridges. But also known for it's specific courtyards of the historical buildings. They are different from courtyards of the rest of Russia because of specific features of architecture in Saint Petersburg.

Peter The Great, the founder of the city, in terms of economy of the land, commanded to construct all buildings next to each other with no spaces between them - solid facades. Because of this, most of courtyards of the historical buildings are surrounded by the walls. In Russian language such a courtyards called "дворы-колодцы" (courtyard-wells). Because their form reminds the form of water wall. In general.

In this video I am going inside of those brutal courtyards of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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