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# A city should be composed of varied masses, if we want it to delight the eye…
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/gorod-dolzhen-sostoiat-iz-raznoobraznykh-mass-esli-khotim-chtoby-on-dostavlial-udovolstvie-vzoram/
- Published: 2026-03-07T06:01:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:43.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Architecture, Books, Saint Petersburg

> A city should be composed of varied masses, if we want it to delight the eye… Let there be seen in it the gently convex milky dome, and the religious, endless spire, and the Eastern mitre, and the flat Italian roof, and the tall, ornamented Flemish one, and the four-sided pyramid, and the round column, and the angular obelisk

*Gogol, “On the Architecture of the Present Time”*

View of Nevsky Prospekt from the obelisk “To the Hero City of Leningrad” on Vosstaniya Square in Saint Petersburg, 1985.

The monument's authors are the architects Vladimir Lukyanov and Alexander Alymov