🚶 Palace Embankment

A granite embankment along the Neva from the Summer Garden to the Hermitage, with views of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Spit.

The embankment is 1.3 km long; it is named after the Winter and Marble palaces.
From 1923 to 1944 it was called Ninth of January Embankment, in memory of the shooting of the 1905 demonstration.
The wooden bank was faced with granite by a decree of 1762; the work under Yury Felten went on until 1780.
The fabulist Ivan Krylov lived at No. 2, Betskoy's house.
Prime Minister Sergey Witte, the painter Konstantin Makovsky and the historian Yevgeny Tarle lived at No. 30.
In 1832 the 600-tonne monolith of the Alexander Column was unloaded at this embankment, brought on the special boat ‘St Nicholas’.

Part of these routes