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      With a child: the zoo, cannons and the Aurora

      ⏱ 9 h🚶 6 km🍽 4📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The Petrogradskaya Side for little ones: animals, cannons, the fortress and a real cruiser.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
      👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The Peter and Paul Fortress is cobbled. Gangways lead to the Aurora — strollers aren’t taken inside. Across Troitsky Bridge the pavement is even, but it’s a long way.

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      1. 1
        🧺 Sytny Market
        Сытнинская пл., 5
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        Breakfast at the market
        🍴 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
        ✨ Leningrad Zoo
        Александровский парк, 1
        🚪 entrance from Kronverksky Prospekt
        🎟 ticket
        One of the country's oldest zoos, in Alexandrovsky Park: enclosures, pavilions, a playground.
        Polar bears
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        Leningrad Zoo
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Leningrad Zoo
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The zoological garden opened on 1 (13) August 1865; its first owners were Sophie and Julius Gebhardt.
        • Alexander II gave the zoo a pair of Indian elephants, and officers of the corvette ‘Rynda’ gave it a polar bear.
        • The elephant Betty was killed in a raid on the night of 8–9 September 1941, while the hippopotamus Krasavitsa survived the siege.
        • In memory of the staff who saved the zoo during the siege, it stayed “Leningrad” even after the city was renamed.
        • Until 1952 it was called a zoological garden rather than a zoo.
        • The young zoologists' club at the zoo has been running since 1929.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Military History Museum of Artillery
        Александровский парк, 7
        🎟 ticket
        In the courtyard — hundreds of cannons and rockets in the open air
        Cannons in the courtyard
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        Military History Museum of Artillery
        © Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Military History Museum of Artillery
        © Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum traces its history to the Zeughaus, an arms house founded by Peter I in 1703.
        • Since 1868 the museum has occupied the Kronverk Arsenal, built in 1851–1860 by the architect P. I. Tamansky.
        • The collection has over 850,000 items, from the 14th century to the present day.
        • The exhibits include cannons by the famous founder Andrey Chokhov.
        • During the Yaroslavl uprising of 1918 about 2,000 banners from the museum's evacuated holdings burned.
        • In the courtyard by the Kronverk Canal stands a monument to the Decembrists executed on this spot in 1826.
        • In 2019 a monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov was unveiled in front of the entrance.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Restaurant "Baklazhan" on Gorkovskaya · 🧸 play area
        Александровский парк, 4к3 (МФК «Великан Парк»)
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        Baklazhan at Velikan Park, 300 m from the Artillery Museum and right by the zoo: a play room and a step-free entrance, so a stroller is fine; a handy break between the zoo and the fortress.
        🍴 A big family restaurant from Ginza Project with a view of the Peter and Paul Fortress and a children's room with a ball pit and an entertainer. What to order: khachapuri from a wood-fired oven, khinkali and dolma; for kids, vegetable sticks, pasta with cheese or nuggets from the children's menu.
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        🏛 Peter and Paul Fortress
        🎟 partly ticketed · The grounds are free; the cathedral and museums are ticketed
        The noon cannon shot — at 12:00
        The gun at 12:00 and the beach
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        Peter and Paul Fortress
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter and Paul Fortress
        © Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The fortress was founded on 16 (27) May 1703 — this day is considered the founding day of Petersburg.
        • The fortress never took part in military action.
        • From 1706 the earthen ramparts began to be replaced with brick ones; the bastions are named after Peter's associates — Menshikov, Naryshkin, Trubetskoy.
        • The Peter and Paul Cathedral was built in 1712–1733 to a design by Trezzini; the bell tower is 122.5 m high, and inside is the Romanov burial vault.
        • The Peter Gate is dedicated to the victories over Sweden; Trezzini designed its Baroque facade in 1708.
        • Until the early 1920s the Trubetskoy Bastion held a prison for political prisoners; Maxim Gorky was held there in 1905.
        • In 1991 a monument to Peter I by Mikhail Shemyakin was placed on the central alley.
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        🍽 Petrovskoye café in the Peter and Paul Fortress
        Петропавловская крепость, 3Т
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        Lunch in the fortress
        🍴 An inexpensive canteen-style café right inside the Peter and Paul Fortress: soups, pastries, lunches. What to order: borscht, pasta, pirozhki, tea in a pot.
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        🖼 Peter the Great's Cabin
        Петровская наб., 6
        🎟 ticket
        Peter I's wooden hut under a protective stone casing on Petrovskaya Embankment.
        Peter’s Cabin
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        Peter the Great's Cabin
        © deror_avi · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Peter the Great's Cabin
        © Aniacra · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cabin was built by soldier-carpenters in three days, 24 to 26 May 1703 (New Style); its area is about 60 m².
        • Peter ordered the logs painted to look like red brick and the roof covered with shingles resembling tiles — so the house would look like stone.
        • There are no stoves in the house: Peter lived in it only in the warm season, from 1703 to 1708.
        • The first stone casing was put up in 1784 by decree of Catherine II after the flood of 1777; the present one dates from 1844.
        • From the 1740s Peter's dining room held the Chapel of the Saviour Not Made by Hands — students came here to pray before exams.
        • The bronze bust of Peter in front of the cabin was installed in 1875.
        • The museum opened in 1930; today it is a branch of the Russian Museum.
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        🖼 Cruiser Aurora
        Петроградская наб.
        🎟 ticket
        An early 20th-century protected cruiser by Petrogradskaya Embankment — a museum ship with an open deck.
        On the cruiser’s deck
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        Cruiser Aurora
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cruiser was launched at the New Admiralty on 11 (24) May 1900 in the presence of Nicholas II.
        • She is named after the sailing frigate ‘Aurora’, which defended Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Crimean War.
        • At the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 the Aurora took 18 hits from Japanese shells, but survived.
        • A blank shot from the Aurora in autumn 1917 became the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace.
        • In 1941 nine 130-mm guns were taken off the cruiser for Battery ‘A’, which defended Leningrad at Duderhof.
        • The cruiser took up her permanent berth on 17 November 1948; naval cadets then lived and studied aboard.
        • During the 1984–1987 repair almost the whole underwater part of the hull was replaced.
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        🌳 Summer Garden
        🚪 entrance from Palace Embankment
        🎟 partly ticketed · The garden is free; the Summer Palace is ticketed
        Peter I's garden with marble statues, fountains, the Summer Palace and the famous railing on the Neva side.
        Across Troitsky Bridge to the garden
        🚪 exit to the Moika, by the Carp Pond
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        Summer Garden
        © ElenaLitera · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Summer Garden
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Summer Garden
        © Евгений Со · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The garden was laid out by order of Peter I in 1704, on the site of the manor of the Swedish major von Konow.
        • Most of the marble statues are by Italian masters of the turn of the 17th–18th century; they were bought in Italy by Peter's agents.
        • The sections of the Neva railing were forged in 1773–1777 at the merchant Denisov's Tula works.
        • The storm and flood of 21 September 1777 destroyed the garden's fountains, and it was then decided not to restore them.
        • Rossi's Coffee House (1826) was rebuilt from the “Grotto” pavilion, and Charlemagne's wooden Tea House (1827) is finished to look like stone.
        • The monument to Krylov by Pyotr Klodt was put up in 1855; the pedestal is decorated with scenes from the fables.
        • After restoration the garden had its grand reopening on 27 May 2012.
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      19. 10
        ☕️ Eliseevsky Store
        Невский пр., 56
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        Dinner and cakes
        🍴 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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