St Petersburg palaces represent a "text-book" of architectural masterpieces, which can be compared with planets and stars in the"skies"of Russian and world art. Notably, in the course of the past century the harmonious perfection of works by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Savva Chevakinsky, Antonio Rinaldi, Ivan Starov, Giacomo Quarenghi, Harald Bosse, Andrei Stackenschneider, Auguste de Montferrand, Hippolyto Monighetti, Adam Menelaws, Andrei Voronikhin, Luigi Rusca, Maximilian Messmacher, Alexander von Gogen and other celebrated masters grew even more evident.