Open Public Spaces of St. Petersburg during the Reign of Empress Elizabeth
The goal of this article is to review and identify the identity of open public spaces of St. Petersburg during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. The objective of this article is to describe the characteristics of the development of open public spaces in St. Petersburg in the middle of the 18th century. It is emphasized that from the point of view of formation of the basis of a city-forming skeleton, the Elizabethan period of development of open public spaces had its unique characteristics. The main method of research is observation of their characteristics based on the typological basis. The result of this work is the selection of features and laws of the development of open public spaces in these years.