Manezhnaya Square

Manezhnaya Square is located in the Central District of St. Petersburg at the intersection of Ital'yanskaya and Karavannaya Streets, and the pedestrian Malaya Sadovaya Street also leads to it. In the Mikhailovsky Riding School, built in 1798–1800 according to the design of architect V. Brenna, Lenin spoke at soldiers' rallies in 1917 and 1918. In the center of the square in 1867, Karl Hinne built a wooden circus, where on December 26 the first equestrian performance featuring Vilgelmina Hinne took place. In the Old Manege Garden, with an area of 354 square sazhens, a wooden carved gazebo was installed according to the design of A. S. Lytkin, and its 32-meter-long fence is decorated with gates bearing the coats of arms of St. Petersburg and the date "1871".