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      The Siege: the city’s memory

      ⏱ 9 h🚶 3 km + 🚇🚌🍽 3📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Defence Museum, Piskaryovskoye Cemetery and the Monument to the Defenders — a heavy but important day.

      🏛 History and architecture
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      1. 1
        ☕️ Civil
        Волынский пер., 6 / Большая Конюшенная ул., 19
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        Breakfast
        🍴 A coffee shop with strong coffee (filter, funnel) and all-day breakfasts a couple of steps from Nevsky. What to order: brioche with bacon, poached egg and dor blu sauce, syrniki with cherry and whipped condensed milk, pancakes with bacon.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad
        Соляной пер., 9
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in Solyanoy Gorodok: letters, diaries and belongings of siege survivors, military equipment and weapons.
        The Museum of the Defence and Siege
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        Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum grew out of the exhibition “The Heroic Defence of Leningrad”, which it was decided to create during the siege itself, in December 1943.
        • In August 1945 the exhibition was visited by Marshal Zhukov and the American General Eisenhower.
        • Among the first exhibits were Tanya Savicheva's diary and an eight-metre pyramid of pierced German helmets.
        • By 1946 the museum had 37,654 exhibits; its first director was the historian Lev Rakov.
        • In 1952 the museum was closed in the course of the “Leningrad Affair”, and reopened only in 1989.
        • The building was built in 1901–1903 to a design by Pyotr Trifanov for the Handicrafts Museum.
      4. 🚇 15 min on foot to Chernyshevskaya metro, 4 stops on the red line to Ploshchad Muzhestva, then bus 123 or 138 to Piskaryovskoye Cemetery, ≈10 min
      5. 3
        🏛 Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
        Санкт-Петербург, пр. Непокорённых, 72
        🚪 entrance from Prospekt Nepokoryonnykh
        The main memorial to the victims of the Siege: mass graves, the "Motherland" monument and an eternal flame.
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        Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
        © Александров · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In 186 mass graves rest more than 470,000 Leningraders and 75,951 servicemen.
        • From 1 December 1941 to 1 June 1942 alone, 371,428 people were buried here, and on 20 February 1942, 10,043 in a single day.
        • The memorial by the architects A. V. Vasilyev and E. A. Levinson opened on 9 May 1960.
        • The eternal flame was lit from a torch brought from the Field of Mars.
        • The six-metre "Motherland" was created by the sculptors Vera Isaeva and Robert Taurit; on the wall behind her are lines by Olga Berggolts.
        • The main path from the eternal flame to the monument is 480 metres long.
        • A copy of Tanya Savicheva's diary is displayed in the museum at the entrance.
      6. 🚌 bus along Prospekt Nepokoryonnykh or taxi ≈7 min
      7. 4
        ☕️ Buro Pyshechnaya
        Бестужевская ул., 10
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        Lunch
        🍴 A little pyshki shop (Petersburg doughnuts) with a coffee shop near Kondratyevsky Prospekt, on the way to Piskarevskoye Cemetery. The pyshki are fried in batches from fresh dough. What to order: pyshki with powdered sugar or condensed milk, cappuccino, ice cream.
      8. 🚇 bus or taxi ≈10 min to Ploshchad Muzhestva metro, red line to Tekhnologichesky Institut, change to the blue line to Moskovskaya, ≈45 min
      9. 5
        🖼 Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
        пл. Победы
        🎟 partly ticketed · The monument is free; the underground hall is ticketed
        An underground memorial hall
        The underground Hall of Memory, closed on Wednesdays
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        Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
        © SadPetzl · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
        © Reshinna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The authors are the architects Valentin Kamensky and Sergey Speransky and the sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, all participants in the defence of Leningrad.
        • The monument was built for the 30th anniversary of Victory partly with public donations — about 2 million rubles were collected.
        • The underground memorial hall opened on 23 February 1978 and is now part of the Museum of the History of the City.
        • The hall is surrounded by a broken ring 40 m across, faced with granite, with the inscription “900 days — 900 nights” on either side of the break.
        • The granite obelisk rises 48 metres.
        • 26 bronze figures of defenders face the Pulkovo Heights, the former front line.
        • Lines by Olga Berggolts were removed from the design for ideological reasons; Yury Voronov's words “O stones! Be steadfast like people!” were cast instead.
      10. 🚇 from Moskovskaya metro, 6 stops on the blue line to Sennaya Ploshchad, ≈15 min
      11. 6
        🍽 Khochu Kharcho
        Садовая ул., 39/41
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        Dinner by Sennaya
        🍴 A two-storey Georgian restaurant by Ginza Project with Megrelian cuisine on Sennaya Square, open around the clock. What to order: kharcho with walnuts, khachapuri with smoked suluguni, khinkali (Georgian dumplings), ojakhuri.

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