Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia

by iKras · 2026-08-28 · Maps

One of the most significant opera houses in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Russian Federation. A home to worldwide ballet classics - Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake (revision of 1895), and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. The scale I have used to implement is ~1.5:1. It was quite fun to work with the roof - something I enjoyed the most during building. Lots of surprises were observed - unexpected mismatches in building's proportions, which made me to think hard on detailing. Lots of stucco around represent the same thing, but are not actually the same (means, built differently) due to scaling and element positions IRL.