Palace bridge

This guide to the Palace Bridge in Saint Petersburg follows a decade-long design competition that rejected fifty-four proposals before construction finally began in 1912, and the bridge's unfinished opening in December 1916, without railings or lamps. You'll hear how armed insurgents seized the bare, barely-year-old span without a shot on the night of the October Revolution, and how its name and decoration changed over the decades that followed. Stand here after dark to watch it split open for passing ships.