Quay with Sphinxes

One of sphinxes
Modern view of the Quay
Sphinxes lining a quay in front of St Petersburg Academy of Arts by Maxim Vorobiev (1835)

Quay with Sphinxes (Sphinxes at the Universitetskaya Embankment) is a quay at the Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts. It is remarkable for the two ancient sphinxes that were brought from Egypt to Russia at the height of Egyptomania in 1832. The quay was completed in 1834.


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