Admiralty

The building of the Admiralty - a complex of buildings on the banks of the Neva River, where the former head of the Russian Empire, the Admiralty, and from 2012, is the General Staff of the Russian Navy. Located on the 2nd Admiralty Island in St. Petersburg. Significant monument of Russian classicism.
Boat on the spire of the building is regarded as one of the symbols of the city along with the Bronze Horseman and the contours of the diluted Palace bridge against Peter and Paul Cathedral.