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      🏛 Chizhik-Pyzhik

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      A tiny bronze bird on a ledge above the Fontanka: land a coin on the pedestal for good luck.

      • The Chizhik was installed on 19 November 1994; the idea was proposed by the writer Andrei Bitov and realised by Rezo Gabriadze with the architect Vyacheslav Bukhaev.
      • The bird is 11 cm tall and weighs about 5 kg.
      • Until 2014 the Chizhik was stolen seven times, but each time it was returned or cast anew.
      • Legend says the song about the Chizhik is about students of the neighbouring School of Jurisprudence in their green-and-yellow uniforms, but a parody of it was already known in 1825, before the school opened.

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      • Quest: a nose, lions, griffins and cats
      • Summer Garden and the Russian Museum: the long loop
      • Sadovaya in lights: from the Chizhik to Sennaya
      • The Moika and Fontanka in lights
      • Cats on the cornices, Chizhik-Pyzhik and pyshki
      • A lit-up castle, the Public Library and the Gostiny arcades

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