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      A rainy day: the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and Fabergé

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 3 km🍽 3📍 8 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Three great collections and three meals — almost without going outside.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
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      1. 1
        ☕️ Stolle on Nevsky
        Невский пр., 11
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        Breakfast: pies
        🍴 A pie shop of the St Petersburg chain Stolle at the start of Nevsky: open and closed pies by weight, soup and hot dishes at the counter. What to order: a cabbage pie, a lingonberry or blueberry pie, borscht, homemade pelmeni (dumplings).
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      3. 2
        🖼 State Hermitage (Winter Palace)
        Дворцовая пл., 2
        🎟 ticket · free for concession holders on the third Thursday of the month
        Rastrelli's turquoise-and-white palace on the Neva — the tsars' main residence, now one of the largest museums in the world.
        The Winter Palace
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        State Hermitage (Winter Palace)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        State Hermitage (Winter Palace)
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Hermitage dates from 1764, when 317 paintings of the merchant Gotzkowsky were handed to Catherine II from Berlin in settlement of a debt.
        • The present Winter Palace is the fifth one: built in 1754–1762, it became the tallest residential building in St Petersburg and had about 1,500 rooms.
        • The fire of 1837 destroyed all the palace's interiors, but under Stasov and Bryullov it was restored in just two years.
        • The Jordan Entrance is named after the "Jordan" ice hole: at Epiphany the royal family went out through it onto the ice of the Neva.
        • On 5 February 1880 the Narodnaya Volya member Stepan Khalturin set off a bomb in the palace, aiming at Alexander II: 11 guard soldiers died, the emperor was unharmed.
        • From October 1915 to November 1917 a hospital named for Tsarevich Alexei operated in the Winter Palace's state rooms.
        • The Hermitage collection was evacuated during the war, and not a single exhibit was lost.
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      5. 3
        🖼 General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        Дворцовая пл., 6–8
        🎟 ticket · included in the Hermitage single ticket
        Rossi's semicircular building with an arch on Palace Square; its east wing holds Hermitage exhibition halls under glass roofs.
        The Impressionists
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        General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        © Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0
        General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        © Alexey Komarov · CC BY 3.0
        General Staff Building (Hermitage)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1819–1829 to a design by Carlo Rossi; until 1917 it housed the Army General Staff, the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Ministry.
        • The arch is crowned by Victory in a chariot drawn by six horses — the work of the sculptors Stepan Pimenov and Vasily Demut-Malinovsky.
        • To lighten the chariot, the figures were hammered out of copper over a cast-iron frame — making the sculptural group five times lighter.
        • On 30 August 1918 the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka, Moisei Uritsky, was killed in the entrance of the east building.
        • The east wing was transferred to the Hermitage in 1999, and its full reconstruction was finished in 2013.
        • The wing fully opened on 28 June 2014 with the Manifesta 10 biennial — Matisse's "Dance" and "Music" were moved here at the same time.
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      7. 4
        ☕️ Singer House and Café René
        Невский пр., 28
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        Lunch
        🍴 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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      9. 5
        🖼 Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace)
        Инженерная ул., 4
        🎟 ticket
        Rossi's classical palace with a grand staircase — the largest collection of Russian art, from icons to the avant-garde.
        Aivazovsky and Repin
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        Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace)
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace)
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Mikhailovsky Palace was built in 1819–1825 for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the youngest son of Paul I.
        • Paul I ordered money to be set aside each year for a palace for his youngest son, "so that my son could live like a tsar", but did not live to see it built.
        • The museum was established by Nicholas II in 1895 as the "Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III" and opened on 19 March 1898.
        • The collection has more than 410 thousand items, including about 5 thousand icons from the 12th to the early 20th century.
        • In 1941 more than 7,500 of the most valuable exhibits were evacuated to Molotov, and not one was damaged during the war.
        • Besides the Mikhailovsky Palace, the museum also owns the Marble and Stroganov palaces, St Michael's Castle and Peter I's Summer Palace.
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      11. 6
        🖼 Benois Wing of the Russian Museum
        наб. канала Грибоедова, 2
        🎟 ticket
        20th-century art: Malevich, Petrov-Vodkin
        Malevich
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        Benois Wing of the Russian Museum
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The wing was designed in 1910–1912 by Leontiy Benois and Sergey Ovsyannikov.
        • It was laid down on 27 June 1914, but because of the war it was only finished in 1919.
        • The building was first called the Palace of Arts and was meant for exhibitions of artists' associations.
        • The Russian Museum's modern art department moved in here in 1932.
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      13. 7
        🖼 Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        наб. Фонтанки, 21
        🎟 ticket
        A mansion on the Fontanka with restored halls displaying Easter eggs, jewellery and silver.
        The imperial eggs
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        Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        © Ninara from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY 2.0
        Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        © Ninara from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY 2.0
        Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        © Guy Fawkes · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The museum is built on Malcolm Forbes's collection: in 2004 Viktor Vekselberg bought it as a single lot just before the auction.
        • The museum opened on 19 November 2013 and became Russia's first private museum of national scale.
        • The palace restoration took seven years and cost roughly 1.2 billion rubles, with no state money.
        • The collection has over 4,000 items, including works by Fabergé's rivals Sazikov, Ovchinnikov and Khlebnikov.
        • In 1928 the building, then the House of the Press, hosted the famous OBERIU evening “Three Left Hours”.
        • During the First World War the palace's last owner, Countess Betsy Shuvalova, set up a field hospital here.
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      15. 8
        🍽 Palkin restaurant
        Невский пр., 47
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        Dinner
        🍴 A restaurant on the site of the famous Palkin tavern (founded in 1785): pre-revolutionary Russian cuisine with theatrical presentation and a historic interior. What to order: sterlet in white wine, day-old shchi, Olivier salad, the “Anna Pavlova” cake.

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