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Nevsky Prospekt, or the '''Neva Avenue''' (Russian: Невский проспект), is the main street in the city of St Petersburg . Planned by Peter The Great as beginning the road to Novgorod and Moscow , the avenue runs from the Admiralty to the Moscow Railway Station and, after making a turn, to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra . The chief sights include the Rastrelli esque Stroganov Palace, the huge Neoclassical Kazan Cathedral , the Art Nouveau ''Bookhouse'' (Dom Knigi), half a dozen 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine The Great , an enormous 18th-century Shopping Mall , a Mid-19th-century Department Store , Grand Hotel Europe , the Russian National Library , and the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues. The feverish life of the avenue was described by Gogol in his story ''The Nevsky Prospect'' . During the early Soviet years (1918-44) it was known as the ''Avenue of the Twenty-Fifth of October'', alluding to the day of October Revolution . External links
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