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      Botanical Garden and the Karpovka

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Palms in the greenhouses, a quiet convent and a new creative cluster.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places
      👶 under 3, 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The Botanical Garden’s park is flat; the greenhouses have narrow paths — ask at the entrance about strollers. The Karpovka embankment has a narrow pavement, with cobbles in places.

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        🌳 Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        ул. Профессора Попова, 2
        🚪 entrance from Professora Popova Street
        🎟 ticket · The park and the greenhouses need separate tickets; the greenhouses are visited with a guide
        The greenhouses are open all year round
        Greenhouses with tropics — even in winter
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        Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter the Great Botanical Garden
        © Afanasovich · CC BY 4.0
        • The garden grew out of Peter I's Apothecary Garden, already mentioned in the 1713 census; the documents on its founding burned in 1737.
        • Under Catherine II “Tungus tea” was grown here — meadowsweet, thought to be a sweat-inducing remedy for colds.
        • The garden received Peter the Great's name in 1913, for its 200th anniversary.
        • The greenhouse complex has 28 greenhouses with a total area of about 1 ha, and the route through them is about a kilometre long.
        • Two greenhouse quadrangles were built in 1823–1826 so that they can be walked round without going outdoors.
        • During the siege 50 incendiary bombs and 85 shells hit the greenhouses.
        • The Botanical Museum, founded in 1823, holds over 80,000 specimens.
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        🚶 Karpovka Embankment
        A narrow river with granite embankments and trees, winding through the Petrogradskaya Side.
        A walk along the river
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        Karpovka Embankment
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Karpovka is an arm of the Neva 3 km long and about 20 m wide, between Petrogradsky and Aptekarsky islands.
        • The name is a corruption of the Finnish Korpijoki, translated both as “forest” and as “crow” river.
        • The banks of the Karpovka were faced with granite only in the 1960s–70s.
        • No. 13 is the first residential building of the Leningrad Soviet (1932–1935, architects Levinson and Fomin), a model of Constructivism.
        • In 2021 the sculpture “Sad Angel” appeared by the Medical University, in memory of medics who died of coronavirus.
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        🏛 St John's Convent (Ioannovsky Monastery)
        наб. Карповки, 45
        A red-brick convent with Byzantine-style domes; the crypt holds the tomb of John of Kronstadt.
        A fortress-like convent in Byzantine style
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        St John's Convent (Ioannovsky Monastery)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The convent was founded by John of Kronstadt and named after his patron, St John of Rila.
        • The neo-Byzantine building was designed by the diocesan architect Nikolay Nikonov; the foundation was laid in September 1900.
        • The main church was consecrated on 17 November 1902 with Father John taking part.
        • In December 1908 John of Kronstadt was buried here in a white marble tomb in the basement church.
        • In 1926 the entrance to the crypt was walled up and the relics hidden under a concreted floor — they have never been found.
        • In 1989 the convent was returned to the Church as a metochion of the Pühtitsa Convent.
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        🍜 Lenpoligrafmash
        наб. реки Карповки, 5
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        Cafés and markets in a former factory
        🍴 A former factory on the Karpovka that became a technology park and a quarter of cafés and restaurants. What to order: steaks and sausages of their own making at Beefzavod, Neapolitan pizza at Master and Margarita, noodles at Aziaty.
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      9. 5
        🍽 Restaurant "Teplye Kraya" · 🧸 play area
        пр. Медиков, 5, лит. В
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        Tyoplye Kraya, 150 m from Lenpoligrafmash — a warm end to the walk with a play room for little ones; call to check whether there’s a changing table, and book a table by the play area at weekends.
        🍴 A family restaurant on Apothecary Island with a children's room (with a nanny on weekends) and its own kids' club. What to order: chicken noodles, corn soup and lasagne; for a toddler, soup and pasta from the children's menu.

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