Publichka
The Russian National Library (formerly the Imperial Public Library, in Soviet times the State Public Library Named for Saltykov-Shchedrin [a 19th-c. writer]; commonly called the "Publichnaia" Library, or simply the "Publichka"), main building, Ostrovskaia Square facade, originally designed by Egor T. Sokolov, 1796–1801, facade redesigned by Carlo Rossi, 1828–34, when Rossi added a building to the library complex and incorporated it into Sokolov's building on the Ostrovskaia Square side.