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      All of Vasilyevsky: from the Strelka to the bay

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 10 km🍽 3📍 11 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      Embankment museums, the Lines, a market, Erarta, an icebreaker and sunset at Sevkabel.

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      1. 1
        ☕️ Stolle on the 1st Line
        1-я линия В.О., 50
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        Breakfast: pies
        🍴 A pie shop of the Petersburg Stolle chain (since 2002): pies by old Russian recipes, whole or by the slice, sweet and savoury. What to order: a mushroom pie, a fish pie, a chocolate pie.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🌅 Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island (the Spit)
        The Rostral Columns and a view of the Neva
        A panorama of the Neva
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        Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island (the Spit)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island (the Spit)
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • Until 1885 Petersburg's seaport worked on the Spit, then it was moved to Gutuevsky Island.
        • The 32-metre Rostral Columns were put up by Thomas de Thomon in 1805–1810; until 1885 they served as lighthouses.
        • The columns' name comes from the Latin rostrum, “ship's prow”: they are decorated with metal ship prows and anchors.
        • The version that the figures at the base of the columns are the Volkhov, Neva, Dnieper and Volga is recent and not confirmed by documents.
        • The Exchange building, shaped like an ancient temple, opened in 1816; since 2013 it has been handed over to the Hermitage.
        • From 1937 to 1989 the square on the Spit was called Pushkin Square.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Kunstkamera
        Университетская наб., 3
        🎟 ticket
        A turquoise building with an openwork tower — Peter's anatomical rarities and the ethnography of the world's peoples.
        The Kunstkamera
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        Kunstkamera
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The founding date is considered to be 1714, when Peter's collection was placed in the Chambers by the Summer Palace.
        • The present Petrine Baroque building was built from 1718 to 1734, begun by Georg Mattarnovy.
        • Peter bought the anatomical collection of over 2,000 items in 1717 from the Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch.
        • Peter's decree of 1718 promised a reward for delivering “monsters” and unusual things and threatened a fine for hiding them.
        • In the fire of 5 December 1747 the tower, the observatory and the interior finishes burned; the building was restored by Savva Chevakinsky.
        • Mikhail Lomonosov worked in the building — a separate exhibition is devoted to him, with the Academy of Sciences' meeting hall.
        • The tower is crowned with an armillary sphere — a model of the celestial sphere made of rings.
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      7. 4
        🖼 Menshikov Palace
        Университетская наб., 15
        🎟 ticket
        One of the city's first stone buildings — Menshikov's yellow palace with Petrine-era tiled rooms.
        Menshikov Palace
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        Menshikov Palace
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Menshikov Palace
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Construction of the palace began in May 1710 to a design by Giovanni Maria Fontana, who was replaced by Gottfried Schädel in 1713.
        • Peter called the palace the Embassy House: foreign ambassadors were received here and feasts held.
        • The future Empress Anna Ioannovna celebrated her wedding to the Duke of Courland in the palace.
        • In 1727 Menshikov was exiled to Berezov, and from 1731 the palace was taken over by the Land Gentry (later Cadet) Corps.
        • By 1727 there were 13 rooms here faced with white and blue tiles, of which four survive; some of the tiles came from Delft.
        • The grand staircase has survived from 1716–1720.
        • Since 1981 the palace has been a branch of the Hermitage with the exhibition “Russian Culture of the First Third of the 18th Century”.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Sphinxes by the Academy of Arts
        Университетская наб., 17
        A pair of granite Egyptian sphinxes on the steps down to the Neva by the Academy of Arts.
        The sphinxes
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        Sphinxes by the Academy of Arts
        © Alex Fedorov (Florstein) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sphinxes by the Academy of Arts
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The sphinxes were made under the pharaoh Amenhotep III for his mortuary temple in Thebes; in 1825 they were found by the antiquities hunter Giovanni d'Athanasi.
        • Each sphinx, of pink Aswan granite, weighs 23 tonnes and is 5.24 m long.
        • Buying them was proposed by the traveller Andrey Muravyov, who had seen a sphinx in Alexandria in 1830.
        • The sphinxes had already been sold to France, but the July Revolution wrecked the deal — and Russia bought them for 64,000 rubles.
        • While being loaded onto the ship ‘Buena Esperanza’, one sphinx fell and damaged the headcloth.
        • The sphinxes arrived in May 1832, but for two years stood in the courtyard of the Academy of Arts while Konstantin Thon finished the landing stage.
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      11. 6
        🧺 Vasileostrovsky Market
        Большой пр. В.О., 16/14б
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        Lunch at the food market
        🍴 A gourmet market from the 1930s which, after the 2019 renovation, is a food hall with 30+ stalls and grocery rows with their own cheese dairy. What to order: Roman pizza at Piopizza, pho at Bổ, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) at Georgiani, oysters at Fisha.
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      13. 7
        🚶 6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
        Vasilyevsky's pedestrian “line”
        The boulevard of Lines
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        6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • According to Peter I's plan the lines of Vasilyevsky Island were to be canal embankments; the name of the 6th and 7th lines has been known since 1718.
        • The pedestrian Andreevsky Boulevard between Bolshoy and Sredny prospekts opened in 2002.
        • The monument to Vasily Korchmin, commander of Peter's battery on the Spit, was unveiled at 34, 7th Line in 2003.
        • From 1863 one of the city's first passenger horse trams ran along the 6th Line — a reminder is the carriage with bronze horses by Sredny Prospekt.
        • The painter Nicholas Roerich was born at No. 1 on the 6th Line in 1874.
        • Korney Chukovsky lived at No. 5 on the 6th Line in 1905–1906.
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      15. 8
        🖼 Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
        29-я линия В.О., 2
        🎟 ticket
        One of the most visited museums in Petersburg — a private museum of contemporary art with a permanent collection and changing exhibitions.
        Contemporary art
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        Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Peterburg23 · CC BY 3.0
        • The museum officially opened on 30 September 2010, having welcomed its first visitors back on 20 May.
        • The name stands for “era of art” — “Era” plus “Art”.
        • The building dates from 1951 in the Stalinist neoclassical style; in Soviet times it housed a district party committee, then a synthetic rubber institute.
        • The entrance is guarded by the sculptures of Era and Art by Dmitry Zhukov, made on the museum's commission.
        • The collection has over 2,800 works by more than 300 artists, from the 1950s to the present day.
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      17. 9
        🖼 Icebreaker Krasin
        наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, у 23-й линии
        🎟 ticket
        You can go down into the engine room
        The icebreaker
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        Icebreaker Krasin
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Icebreaker Krasin
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The icebreaker was built in 1916–1917 in Newcastle, England, at the Armstrong Whitworth yard, under the name ‘Svyatogor’.
        • The design was an improved version of Makarov's ‘Yermak’, with engines of 10,000 horsepower.
        • The engineer and future writer Yevgeny Zamyatin took part in assembling the ship in England.
        • In 1918 the icebreaker was sunk in the Northern Dvina to block the interventionists, but in 1920 they took it away to Britain.
        • In 1927 the icebreaker was named after Leonid Krasin, the diplomat who secured the ship's purchase back from England.
        • In the war the Krasin passed through the Panama Canal and went to the Arctic as part of the northern convoy PQ-15.
        • In the film “The Red Tent” (1969) the Krasin was played by another icebreaker, the ‘Sibiryakov’.
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      19. 10
        ✨ Sevkabel Port
        Кожевенная линия, 40
        🆓 free entry · Free entry, some events are ticketed
        A former cable factory by the gulf: embankment, festivals, sunsets
        Sunset over the bay
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        Sevkabel Port
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The space took over part of the Sevkabel factory — Russia's oldest cable factory, founded by Siemens & Halske.
        • It was Siemens & Halske that first linked Petersburg and Moscow by telegraph and lit Nevsky Prospekt with electricity.
        • In 1918 the factory was nationalised and given its present name, “Sevkabel”.
        • The renovation was devised by the KHVOYA bureau: all the factory buildings were kept, and reel-shaped benches were placed along the alley.
        • The first event took place in June 2017, and Sevkabel Port officially opened in September 2018.
        • In 2020 the neighbouring Vera Slutskaya factory was added to the space — it was named “Iskabel”.
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      21. 11
        🍜 Food court and restaurants at Sevkabel Port
        Кожевенная линия, 40
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        Dinner
        🍴 A public space on the gulf in a former cable factory: ten or so cafés and restaurants by the water. What to order: Roman pizza at Pio al Porto, ramen and gyoza at Takadaya, pljeskavica at Balkan, a burger at Buro.

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