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      Kronstadt and Oranienbaum

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 8 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 9 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      A fortress town and the quietest imperial estate — across the dam in one day.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places🚆 Out of town
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      1. 1
        🏛 Kronstadt Naval Cathedral
        Якорная пл., Кронштадт
        A huge Neo-Byzantine church with a dome and a marble floor decorated with naval motifs.
        The Naval Cathedral. Bus 101 from Staraya Derevnya metro to Kronstadt (~50–60 min, every 10–25 minutes in the daytime; there is also an express, 101E). The Meteors no longer run to Kronstadt in October.
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        Kronstadt Naval Cathedral
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kronstadt Naval Cathedral
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • It is the last and largest of the Russian Empire's naval cathedrals, a memorial to all sailors lost at sea.
        • It was built on Anchor Square, where old anchors used to be stored; Vasily Kosyakov's design was approved in 1901.
        • The dome was calculated to be tall enough to serve as a landmark from the sea.
        • The cathedral was consecrated on 10 (23) June 1913 in the presence of the emperor; construction cost 1,876,000 roubles.
        • In 1930 the bells and crosses were thrown down and the building became the Gorky cinema — known locally as "Maksimka".
        • The restoration, finished in 2013, kept the trace of an unexploded German bomb that had pierced the dome.
        • The first liturgy in 75 years was held here on 19 December 2005; since 2013 it has been the main church of the Russian Navy.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🌳 Petrovsky Park and the Italian Pond
        Кронштадт
        A mid-19th-century square with a monument to Peter I by the harbour; nearby is the Italian Pond from Peter's era.
        A view of the harbour
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        Petrovsky Park and the Italian Pond
        © A-Z.Anisimov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Petrovsky Park and the Italian Pond
        © Blindpew100 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Petrovsky Park and the Italian Pond
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park grew on the site of the 1752 Arsenal Square, where parades and reviews were held.
        • Governor Bellingshausen, appointed in 1839, began landscaping at his own expense; the formal park was laid out from 1859.
        • The monument to Peter I was cast in 1841 by Peter Clodt from a model by Théodore Jacques.
        • All pre-revolutionary Russian round-the-world voyages began from the Winter Pier by the park.
        • The pier holds the anchors of the boats that landed the Peterhof assault force on 5 October 1941.
        • In Soviet times the park was called Freedom Park.
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      5. 3
        ✨ Fort Island Park
        Кронштадт
        🎟 partly ticketed · the park is free, the Naval Glory Museum requires a ticket
        A park on Kotlin Island: lighthouses, the Naval Glory Museum, playgrounds.
        Lighthouses and the Navy museum
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        Fort Island Park
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Fort Island Park
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Fort Island Park
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • The park opened in 2020: officially on Navy Day, 26 July, and to visitors on 8 August.
        • The complex covers more than 100 hectares around the Cabotage Harbour.
        • The names on the Alley of Fleet Heroes were chosen by a nationwide public vote.
        • The main exhibit of the Naval Glory Museum (opened in 2023) is K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, the first Soviet nuclear submarine.
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      7. 4
        ☕️ Teremok on the Island of Forts
        Кронштадт, парк «Остров фортов», у Цитадельского ш., 14
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        Lunch in the park
        🍴 A Teremok blini kiosk in the Island of Forts park: blini and soups. What to order: blini, the soup of the day.
      8. 🚕 taxi across the dam ≈30 min; or bus 175 Kronstadt — Lomonosov (station), interval ≈20–30 min
      9. 5
        🖼 Grand Menshikov Palace
        Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket
        Menshikov's palace with curved galleries on a high terrace overlooking the gulf and Kronstadt.
        Oranienbaum’s Grand Palace
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        Grand Menshikov Palace
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Grand Menshikov Palace
        © Ninaras · CC BY 4.0
        • The palace was built for Prince Menshikov in 1710–1725; in scale the residence then surpassed Peterhof.
        • The palace church was consecrated on 3 September 1727, and five days later Menshikov was arrested and all his property confiscated.
        • From 1743 Oranienbaum was the residence of Grand Duke Pyotr Fyodorovich, the future Peter III.
        • The sea canal that linked the palace with the Gulf of Finland survives to this day.
        • Unlike the other suburbs, Oranienbaum was not ravaged in the war, but the palace was handed over to the museum only in 1995.
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      11. 6
        🌳 Upper Park of Oranienbaum
        Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket · In the cold season entry to the park is free
        An old 18th-century park with a network of paths and ponds, where crowds are rare.
        Ponds and little bridges
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        Upper Park of Oranienbaum
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Upper Park of Oranienbaum
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Upper Park covers 162 ha; it combines formal and landscape layouts.
        • In 1746, behind the Karpin Pond, a “toy” fortress was built with a moat, a palisade and ramparts that had no military purpose.
        • In 1756–1757 the military town of Peterstadt grew up in the park, where Rinaldi built a palace for Pyotr Fyodorovich.
        • In 1873 the park had 30 bridges — 8 stone and 22 wooden.
        • After the war the park was opened to visitors on 9 June 1946.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🖼 Chinese Palace
        Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket
        Rinaldi's small palace with chinoiserie interiors — the original decor survived the war undamaged.
        The palace is open only from late May to September — in autumn and winter we look from outside: the blue facade and the park around it
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        Chinese Palace
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chinese Palace
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chinese Palace
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was built to a design by Antonio Rinaldi in 1757–1768 for Catherine II — the centre of her Own Dacha.
        • The most famous room is the Glass Bead Cabinet: its twelve panels of the 1760s were embroidered by nine Russian needlewomen.
        • The glass beads for the panels were made at Lomonosov's factory in Ust-Rudits near Oranienbaum.
        • The palace became a museum in 1922 — the only building in Oranienbaum to do so before the war.
        • In 1852–1853 Stackenschneider and Bonstedt added a second storey over the south facade.
      14. 🚶 on foot
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        🏛 Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion
        Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket
        A white-and-blue Rococo pavilion — all that remains of a giant wooden sledding hill.
        An 18th-century roller coaster
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        Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The hill was built in 1762–1774 to Rinaldi's design; it was long attributed to Rastrelli until this was refuted in the early 20th century.
        • A 532-metre wooden slope with four hills adjoined the 34-metre pavilion, and people rode down it in shaped carriages.
        • Riding stopped in 1801 because of dilapidation, in 1813 the slope's colonnades collapsed, and in 1858–1861 they were dismantled.
        • The Porcelain Cabinet held 40 Meissen groups of 1772–1775 about Catherine II's power over the seas and the victory at Chesme.
        • The pavilion's postwar restoration ran in 1951–1958.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        ☕️ U Ivanycha Café
        Первомайская ул., 3Б, Ломоносов
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        Dinner on Dvortsovy Prospekt
        🍴 A small home-cooking café with a summer terrace near the exit of Oranienbaum Park. What to order: borscht with salo and Borodino bread, shurpa with lamb, chebureki, apple strudel with ice cream.

      ↩️ Getting back: Trains from Oranienbaum-1 to Baltiysky Station (≈55 min): 17:29, 18:40 Lastochka, 19:00 Lastochka, 19:55, 20:40 Lastochka (timetable for October 2026)

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