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      Art Nouveau: Petrogradka and Nevsky

      ⏱ 9 h🚶 7 km + 🚇🍽 5📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The Northern Art Nouveau of Kamennoostrovsky, a station, Eliseyevsky and the Singer House.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
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      1. 1
        🧺 Sytny Market
        Сытнинская пл., 5
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        Breakfast
        🍴 The city's oldest market, in a building of 1913: meat, dairy and fruit rows, a café on the second floor. What to order: chicken Kyiv at the “180°” (Kotletnaya) stall, plov with flatbread at Plovnaya, farm cheeses and curd cheese.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Lidval House
        Каменноостровский пр., 1–3
        An apartment building with a ceremonial courtyard where every window and facade detail is different — a model of Northern Art Nouveau.
        Lidval House
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        Lidval House
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1899–1904 — Fyodor Lidval's first independent work, commissioned by his mother Ida Lidval.
        • The north wing served as the Lidval family's own mansion.
        • Four buildings of different heights surround a cour d'honneur, separated from the avenue by a fence on posts of red Finnish granite.
        • The facades carry reliefs of birds, animals and plants, and the year the building was finished is carved above the central portal.
        • The plot is trapezoid, yet Lidval managed without rooms with acute and obtuse angles.
        • In 1909 the painter Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin lived in the house, and in 1904 the family of General Kuropatkin.
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      5. 3
        🏛 House with Towers
        пл. Льва Толстого
        An apartment building with two tall towers on the corner of Kamennoostrovsky — the architectural dominant of the square.
        The house with towers
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        House with Towers
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Construction of the House with Towers was completed in 1915; the architectural part was designed by Andrey Belogrud.
        • The developer was the engineer Konstantin Rosenstein, and he built this house for himself.
        • The floors are held by multi-span I-beams — an invention of Rosenstein himself.
        • In 1996 the Andrey Mironov Russian Entreprise Theatre opened in the house.
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      7. 4
        🏛 House of the Emir of Bukhara
        Каменноостровский пр., 44Б
        An apartment building of 1913–1914 with facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos, built for the Emir of Bukhara (designed by Stepan Krichinsky).
        The Emir’s house
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        House of the Emir of Bukhara
        © Тулип · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1913–1914 on commission from the Emir of Bukhara for his son Sayyid Alim Khan; in fact, it is an apartment building.
        • The architect is Stepan Krichinsky, who also took part in building the Cathedral Mosque; the emir awarded him the Order of Noble Bukhara.
        • The facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos are clad in dolomite marble from the Shishim deposit in the Urals.
        • Because of the First World War the balustrade was dropped, and some of the columns were made of wood instead of marble.
        • Krichinsky himself lived here, in flat No. 4, until 1923.
        • In 1993 the film “Kommunalka” was shot in the house; local legend says an underground passage leads from here to the mosque.
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      9. 5
        🍜 Lenpoligrafmash
        наб. реки Карповки, 5
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        Lunch
        🍴 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.
      10. 🚇 10 min on foot to Petrogradskaya metro, blue line to Tekhnologichesky Institut (4 stops), change to the red line, 1 stop to Pushkinskaya
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        🏛 Vitebsky Station
        Загородный пр., 52
        Russia's first railway station, with Art Nouveau interiors
        The station’s interiors
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        Vitebsky Station
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first Russian railway, the Tsarskoye Selo line, started here; the first train, with the locomotive Provorny, was driven by Franz Gerstner himself, and Nicholas I was among the passengers.
        • The station changed names: St Petersburg, from 1900 Tsarskoselsky, then Detskoselsky.
        • The present building opened on 1 August 1904 to a design by Stanislav Brzozowski — one of the first public buildings in the Art Nouveau style.
        • The main concourse, more than 20 m high, is covered by a metal dome.
        • Above the main entrance are the coats of arms of Petersburg and Vitebsk, the line's terminals in 1904.
        • On the station's clock tower you can find reliefs of owls.
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      13. 7
        ☕️ Eliseevsky Store
        Невский пр., 56
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        Eliseyevsky
        🍴 A food hall in an Art Nouveau building from 1903 (now the Eliseev Merchants' Store) with a café by the display counters, a restaurant on the 2nd floor and “Warehouse No. 5” in the former wine cellar. What to order: cakes from their own pastry shop, tea, shchi in a bread loaf, chocolate as a gift.
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        🏛 Grand Hotel Europe
        Михайловская ул., 1/7
        Historic Art Nouveau interiors
        The interiors of the Europe
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        Grand Hotel Europe
        © Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • In the 1820s there was a tavern here run by Heinrich Klee, where mostly foreigners stayed.
        • The single "Evropeyskaya" hotel was assembled in 1873–1874 to Ludwig Fontana's design from Klee's hotel and the neighbouring Rogov house.
        • In 1907–1914 Fyodor Lidval rebuilt the interiors and added floors with the summer restaurant "Krysha" (Roof).
        • The ground-floor arcade survives from Carlo Rossi's façade composition.
        • From September 1941 to April 1942 the building housed an evacuation hospital with 1,300 beds.
        • Until 1991 the hotel was called "Evropeyskaya".
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        ☕️ Singer House and Café René
        Невский пр., 28
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        Coffee in the Singer House
        🍴 A Russian-French café, René, on the 2nd floor of the House of Books (Singer House) from the Aster team, with windows onto Kazan Cathedral, breakfasts in the morning and a pastry counter. What to order: vareniki, gratin with Gruyère, onion soup, pyshki or a croissant with coffee.
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      19. 10
        🍽 Teplo restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Б. Морская ул., 45
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        Dinner
        🍴 A living-room restaurant in the House of Composers: several cosy rooms with a homey feel, home cooking and their own baking. What to order: chicken liver salad, draniki with salmon, a curd cheese bake, the “Aunt Tanya” sponge cake.

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