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      Rossi and the Alexandrinsky: a theatre day

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 5 km🍽 3📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Rossi’s ensemble, the library, Anichkov Palace, the rock club and an evening performance.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
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      1. 1
        ☕️ Mechtateli
        наб. реки Фонтанки, 11
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        Breakfast on the Fontanka
        🍴 A gastronomic café on the Fontanka by the Anichkov Bridge, opening at 8 in the morning; breakfasts with unusual combinations and good coffee. What to order: syrniki (with salmon or venison), draniki, rum baba.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        наб. Фонтанки, 21
        🎟 ticket
        A mansion on the Fontanka with restored halls displaying Easter eggs, jewellery and silver.
        The Fabergé Museum
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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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      5. 3
        🏛 Anichkov Palace
        Санкт-Петербург, Невский пр., 39
        One of Nevsky's oldest palaces, an imperial residence under Alexander III; now the Palace of Youth Creativity.
        A tour by appointment
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        Anichkov Palace
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Anichkov Palace
        © Ninara from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY 2.0
        • It is the oldest surviving building on Nevsky: construction began in 1741 by decree of Empress Elizabeth.
        • The design was by Mikhail Zemtsov, and after his death in 1743 Rastrelli completed the construction.
        • The palace stands sideways to Nevsky: its main entrance faced a canal dug from the Fontanka to the harbour by the palace.
        • The palace housed an apartment of the poet Vasily Zhukovsky, who taught the future Alexander II.
        • On 23 November 1836 Nicholas I received Pushkin here and demanded that he refrain from a duel.
        • On 12 February 1937 the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers opened here.
        • In front of the main building grows a birch planted by the cosmonauts Gherman Titov and Vladimir Komarov.
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        🏛 National Library of Russia (historic building)
        Санкт-Петербург, Садовая ул., 18
        Russia's first public library (1814): statues of ancient thinkers on the façade, and inside Voltaire's Library and the Faust Cabinet.
        Interiors — a tour by appointment
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        National Library of Russia (historic building)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • Yegor Sokolov's design for the building was approved by Catherine II in 1795; it took about 15 years to build.
        • The core of the foreign collection was the library of the Załuski brothers.
        • In its first year 329 readers registered at the library.
        • Ivan Krylov, Nikolai Gnedich, Konstantin Batyushkov and Anton Delvig worked at the library.
        • The wing facing the Catherine Garden was built by Carlo Rossi in 1832–1835.
        • Before the revolution the staff included a dachshund keeper: at night the dachshunds caught rats, and now the library is home to a "cat headquarters".
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      9. 5
        🌳 Catherine Garden
        Санкт-Петербург, пл. Островского
        A garden on Nevsky with a monument to Catherine II, at whose foot stand figures of her associates.
        Chess players by the monument
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        Catherine Garden
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Catherine Garden
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Catherine Garden
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden in front of the theatre was laid out in summer 1832 by the master gardener Yakov Fyodorov.
        • The monument to Catherine II, designed by Mikhail Mikeshin, was unveiled in 1873.
        • The statue of the empress was sculpted by Matvey Chizhov, the figures of her associates by Alexander Opekushin.
        • Nine figures stand around the pedestal, among them Potemkin, Suvorov, Rumyantsev, Derzhavin and Dashkova.
        • In the early 1930s there were plans to replace Catherine with a statue of Lenin, but the monument survived.
        • The bronze Suvorov's sword was stolen and has been recreated twice.
        • Locals call the garden "Katkin sadik" (Katka's little garden).
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      11. 6
        🍽 Smoke BBQ
        ул. Рубинштейна, 11
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        Lunch
        🍴 A Texas barbecue restaurant with its own smokehouse, one of the best-known meat places on Rubinstein Street. What to order: "That Very Brisket", smoked pork ribs, a burger, creamed corn.
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        🏛 Leningrad Rock Club House
        Санкт-Петербург, ул. Рубинштейна, 13
        In the courtyard of this building in 1981–1991 there was a rock club where Kino, Aquarium and Zoopark played; there is a memorial plaque on the façade.
        The Rock Club building
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        Leningrad Rock Club House
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The club's founding day is considered to be 7 March 1981 — the first concert of Piknik, Rossiyane, Mify and Zerkalo.
        • The club operated under the Leningrad Inter-Union House of Amateur Art, and the hall held about 200 people.
        • Song lyrics went through a "litovka" — a censorship review — before concerts.
        • The club's annual festivals ran from 1983, and it was they that introduced Kino to the public.
        • Following the Leningrad example, the Moscow Rock Laboratory and the Sverdlovsk Rock Club appeared.
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        🚶 Zodchego Rossi Street
        Санкт-Петербург, ул. Зодчего Росси
        A street of perfect proportions: its width equals the height of the buildings (22 m), and its length is ten times that (220 m).
        A street of perfect proportions
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        Zodchego Rossi Street
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Carlo Rossi built the street's ensemble in 1828–1834, and it received its present name in 1923.
        • The street is home to the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
        • In the 1920s–30s tram conductors announced the stop as "Zoshchenko—Rossi Street".
        • According to a city tale, an old woman asked a taxi driver to take her to "Hare Grove" street — and he brought her here.
        • In 1890–1891 a scenery warehouse for the imperial theatres' ballet company was built in the courtyard of no. 2.
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      17. 9
        🍽 Erivan
        наб. реки Фонтанки, 51–53
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        Dinner before the performance
        🍴 An Armenian restaurant on the Fontanka with a national interior and live music, a five-minute walk from the Alexandrinsky Theatre and Zodchego Rossi Street. What to order: charcoal-grilled lyulya kebab, kufta, shashlik, pomegranate wine.
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      19. 10
        ✨ Alexandrinsky Theatre
        Санкт-Петербург, пл. Островского, 6
        Russia's oldest drama theatre, in a Carlo Rossi building with Apollo's quadriga above the portico.
        The performance — buy tickets ahead
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        Alexandrinsky Theatre
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The company dates from Empress Elizabeth's decree of 1756 — Russia's first permanent public theatre, headed by Fyodor Volkov.
        • Rossi's building opened in 1832 and is named after Alexandra Feodorovna, the wife of Nicholas I.
        • Gogol's The Government Inspector (1836) and Ostrovsky's The Storm (1859) were first staged here.
        • In 1841 the theatre held up to 1,700 spectators, with 107 boxes.
        • In the 1920s Vsevolod Meyerhold and Grigory Kozintsev worked here, later Georgy Tovstonogov.
        • In 1937 the theatre was given Pushkin's name, hence its second name, "Pushkinsky".
        • The theatre's New Stage opened on 15 May 2013.

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