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      🏛 Sennaya Square

      A former market square with a metro station and shopping arcades — the heart of the “Dostoevsky” neighbourhoods.

      Sennaya Square
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      • The square appeared in 1738–1739 on a wasteland with hay warehouses; in 1952–1992 it was called Peace Square.
      • In June 1831 the cholera riot broke out on Sennaya: a crowd wrecked the cholera hospital.
      • Until the mid-19th century thieves and swindlers were publicly punished here — Nekrasov described these “market executions”.
      • The guardhouse building of 1818–1820 was built by Vikenty Beretti to a design by Luigi Rusca.
      • The Church of the Saviour on Sennaya was demolished in 1961, and a metro vestibule was built in its place.
      • Today three metro lines intersect under the square.

      Part of these routes

      • Dostoevsky’s Petersburg
      • Griboedov Canal: griffins and lions
      • Literary Petersburg: Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Pushkin
      • Dostoevsky's Petersburg: the long route
      • Griboedov Canal: from the Savior to the Seven Bridges
      • Sadovaya in lights: from the Chizhik to Sennaya
      • Kazan Cathedral, the Griffins and Sennaya
      • Moika 12, Sennaya and “Raskolnikov's House”
      • A lit-up castle, the Public Library and the Gostiny arcades

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