Maryino steeps

In 70 kilometers from St. Petersburg there is situated one of the most outstanding national monuments of architectural and landscape art of the 19th century and the last work one of the greatest Russian architects Andrey Voronikhin – Maryino Manor. Maryino is the former patrimony of counts Stroganovs and princes Galitzins. Autumn in the Russian village of Maryino near St. Petersburg. Meadow grasses shine with gold in the bright autumn sun. Birches shimmer with red lights. Away from the chimney of a small house goes white smoke. In the foreground of the picture above the waters of the fast river is the Maryinsky precipice. At the edge of the cliff, a tall branchy tree bent over the river.