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      Raskolnikov's House, 730 Steps and Lion Bridge

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 2.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The famous 730 steps from Raskolnikov's house to the pawnbroker's house, the cast-iron lions on the bridge over Griboedov Canal and lunch with kharcho on Sennaya.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 “Raskolnikov's House”
        Гражданская ул., 19
        An ordinary apartment building at the corner of Grazhdanskaya and Stolyarny with commemorative plaques and a bas-relief on the corner.
        The famous 730 steps
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        “Raskolnikov's House”
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1831 by the architect Yegor Zollikofer.
        • As in the novel, thirteen steps lead up to the attic of the house.
        • The wall carries two marble plaques marking the water level of the flood of 7 November 1824, in Russian and in German.
        • The bas-relief on the corner was unveiled on 7 July 1999, and the text on the plaque was composed by Dmitry Likhachev and Daniil Granin.
        • In 1970 the house was rebuilt: the semi-basement was removed and the cobbled courtyard was paved over with asphalt.
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        🏛 Pawnbroker's House
        Средняя Подьяческая ул., 15 / наб. канала Грибоедова, 104
        An apartment building that researchers consider the prototype of Alyona Ivanovna's house in Crime and Punishment: from "Raskolnikov's house" it is exactly those 730 steps.
        Walk the 730 steps from “Raskolnikov's house” yourself; keep quiet in the courtyard — it's a residential building
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        Pawnbroker's House
        © Sbarichev · Public domain
        • The house with two courtyards was built in 1800 by the manufacturer Ivan Walch.
        • In 1833 the house was raised to four storeys (five on the Podyacheskaya side) to a design by architect Liderits.
        • The search for the house seems to have been begun by the local historian Nikolai Antsiferov in his 1923 book Dostoevsky's Petersburg.
        • There are other versions of the old woman's address too — for example, the corner house at Kazanskaya 26 on the Griboedov Canal.
        • In the novel Alyona Ivanovna's flat is on the fourth floor, with the staircase entrance "right now from the gate, on the right".
        • The abbreviations in the novel were decoded in 1907 by Anna Dostoevskaya: "S— Lane" is Stolyarny, "K— Bridge" is Kokushkin.
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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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        🍽 Khochu Kharcho
        Садовая ул., 39/41
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        Lunch by Sennaya: kharcho and khachapuri, open 24 hours
        🍴 A two-storey Georgian restaurant by Ginza Project with Megrelian cuisine on Sennaya Square, open around the clock. What to order: kharcho with walnuts, khachapuri with smoked suluguni, khinkali (Georgian dumplings), ojakhuri.

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