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      Lion Bridge, Vladimir Cathedral and Dostoevsky

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The cast-iron lions on Griboedov Canal, the cathedral Dostoevsky attended, and the house where The Brothers Karamazov was written. The Petersburg courtyards and canals of his novels.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Lion Bridge
        A narrow pedestrian bridge over the Griboyedov Canal whose chains are held by four cast-iron lions.
        The most romantic little bridge on Griboedov Canal
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        Lion Bridge
        © Sergpavl · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lion Bridge
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lion Bridge
        © Ermell · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The bridge opened on 1 July 1826; it was designed at the same time as the Bank Bridge.
        • It is one of three surviving chain pedestrian bridges in Petersburg, along with the Bank and Pochtamtsky bridges.
        • The lions were modelled by the academician Pavel Sokolov, and the cast-iron figures were first painted matte white “like marble”.
        • Until 1912 the bridge was also called the Mariinsky and the Theatre Pedestrian Bridge.
        • In 1882 the embankment was raised by a row of granite blocks, and the lions were lifted together with their pedestals.
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        🏛 Vladimir Cathedral
        Владимирский пр., 20
        A five-domed cathedral with a freestanding bell tower on Vladimirskaya Square.
        Dostoevsky's parish
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        Vladimir Cathedral
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Vladimir Cathedral
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was built in 1761–1769, and the separate bell tower was completed by Giacomo Quarenghi in 1791.
        • In 1828 the funeral service for Arina Rodionovna, Pushkin's nanny, was held here.
        • Fyodor Dostoevsky was a parishioner of the church in the last years of his life.
        • The Baroque 18th-century iconostasis was moved here in 1808 from the church of the Anichkov Palace.
        • In 1932 the church was closed and a factory, Lenmashuchyot, was set up in it; it was returned to the Church in 1989.
        • Vladimirsky Prospekt and Vladimirskaya Square are named after the church.
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        🖼 Dostoevsky Museum
        Кузнечный пер., 5/2
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        The writer's last apartment: the study with a clock stopped at the hour of his death, the nursery and the drawing room.
        The Brothers Karamazov was written here. From 12 November 2026 the museum closes for renovation — then we look at the house from outside.
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        Dostoevsky Museum
        © Monoklon · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dostoevsky Museum
        © Davide Mauro · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dostoevsky Museum
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Dostoevsky lived here from October 1878 until his death on 28 January 1881, and wrote The Brothers Karamazov and his Pushkin speech here.
        • The writer had first briefly lived in this house back in 1846.
        • The museum opened on 11 November 1971, on the 150th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth.
        • The study is recreated from a photograph by Woldemar Taube, taken right after the writer's death in 1881.
        • The clock in the study belonged to the writer's younger brother Andrey Dostoevsky.
        • The one authentic item in the hallway is Dostoevsky's felt hat.
        • The exhibition is based on the collection of the writer's grandson, Andrey Fyodorovich Dostoevsky.

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