Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor

The Merchant Court (Russian: Гостиный двор) is a network of fortified depots built on the Pur-Navolok promontory in Arkhangelsk by a team of German and Dutch masons between 1668 and 1684.

The local merchant court was rebuilt in stone after the fire in May 1667.

The complex consisted of the Russian and German courts (for native and foreign merchants, respectively) and the so-called Stone Town (Каменный город) wedged in between.

[1] After Peter the Great conquered the Baltic coastline and moved the capital to St. Petersburg, most foreign trade was rerouted and the Arkhangelsk trade center was abandoned.

The Neoclassical bourse with a squat tower was added to the complex in 1788.

The Gostiny Dvor is the oldest surviving building in Arkhangelsk
The Gostiny Dvor (in 2016)