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      DLT, Mikhailovsky Garden and Chizhik-Pyzhik

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      DLT's kids' floor, a snack in the Singer House, the lawns of Mikhailovsky Garden where kids can run, and Chizhik-Pyzhik by the castle. A center that's easy with a child.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
      👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✗ hard with a stroller

      There are steps at the entrance of the Pyshechnaya and the Arcade Museum, and Palkin is on the 2nd floor; DLT has lifts. The gardens are gravel, and in Mikhailovsky Castle you leave the stroller.

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        ✨ DLT department store
        Б. Конюшенная ул., 21–23
        A historic department store with a huge children's floor
        The kids' floor
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        DLT department store
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC BY-SA 4.0
        DLT department store
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        DLT department store
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The store opened on 7 December 1909 as the trading house of the Guards Economic Society; the chief architect was Ernest Wirrich.
        • Locals nicknamed it the “Guards housekeeper”: officers of the guards regiments got discounts here.
        • The current name, “House of Leningrad Trade” (DLT), stuck to the building in 1935.
        • The site used to hold the “Volkovskiye Rooms” inn, where Glinka and Saltykov-Shchedrin stayed.
        • After renovation DLT reopened on 6 September 2012, and its retail space doubled to 18,000 m².
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      3. 2
        ☕️ Singer House and Café René
        Невский пр., 28
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        A snack 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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      5. 3
        🌳 Mikhailovsky Garden
        🚪 entrance from the Griboedov Canal Embankment
        🆓 free entry
        A landscape garden behind the Russian Museum with a pond, lawns and Parland's ornate fence on the Savior on Blood side.
        Running around on the lawns
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        Mikhailovsky Garden
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Mikhailovsky Garden
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Mikhailovsky Garden
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In the early 18th century the garden was called the Third Summer Garden — to distinguish it from Peter I's other two gardens.
        • From 1712 a residence for Catherine I was built here, and in the greenhouses the gardener grew bananas and pineapples.
        • Under Anna Ioannovna part of the garden was set aside as a "jagd-garten" — a place to hunt deer, boar and hares.
        • Parland's fence was put up in 1907, when part of the garden went to the Savior on Blood and the new canal embankment.
        • In 2001 a full reconstruction of the garden began, after which the summer festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" started to be held here.
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        🖼 Mikhailovsky Castle
        Садовая ул., 2
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        Paul I's fortress castle surrounded by rivers and canals, with the high golden spire of its house church.
        The castle and Chizhik-Pyzhik
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        Mikhailovsky Castle
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Mikhailovsky Castle
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The castle was built in 1797–1801: the project was begun by Vasily Bazhenov and completed by Vincenzo Brenna.
        • Paul I lived in the castle for about 40 days: he moved in on 1 (13) February 1801 and was killed here on the night of 12 March.
        • The castle stands on the site of Elizabeth Petrovna's wooden Summer Palace, where Paul himself was born in 1754.
        • The copper letters over the gate — “Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever” — were first made for the Smolny Cathedral, then for St Isaac's.
        • According to legend, the colour of the walls was chosen after the glove of Paul's favourite Anna Lopukhina; restorers found a pinkish-orange paint under the plaster.
        • The castle got its second name, “Engineers' Castle”, from the Main Engineering School that took it over in 1819.
        • In front of the castle stands the monument to Peter I after a model by B. K. Rastrelli, with the inscription “To the great-grandfather from the great-grandson” — Paul put it up in 1800.
        • Since 1994 the whole building has belonged to the Russian Museum.

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