The General Staff Building in Saint Petersburg was designed by Carlo Rossi in the Empire style, which the article describes as Neoclassical. Stepan Pimenov and Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky sculpted the triumphal arch. The article names no client. It was built from 1819 to 1829, and the page has no infobox, so no dates conflict.
The article describes a bow-shaped facade 1,900 feet (580 m) long on Palace Square, in front of the Winter Palace. It names no materials. The western wing housed the General Staff, and the eastern wing housed the Foreign and Finance Ministries.
The capital moved to Moscow in 1918. In 1993 the eastern wing was given to the Hermitage Museum and remodeled inside. The western wing hosts the Leningrad Military District headquarters. The article gives no hours.
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