 Engineer Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786-1838) ("Пётр Петрович Базен") designed and constructed the bridge in a similar fashion to the Big Stables Bridge ("Bolshoy Konyushenny Bridge"), a bridge located further west on the Moika River, using pre-fabricated hollow wedges.Bazaine also managed to reduce the use of expensive cast-iron in the bridge's construction to one-third of the total mass of the bridge, by innovatively designing the sidewalks with the use of special bracket supports.The siding is decorated in Doric style by architect Joseph Charlemagne.