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      The Admiralty, the Bronze Horseman and Annunciation Bridge

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.6 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Admiralty spire and the Bronze Horseman lit up, the lights of the Kunstkamera and the Academy of Arts across the Neva from English Embankment, and a finish on Annunciation Bridge.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Admiralty
        Адмиралтейский пр., 1
        🆓 free entry · no entry inside — you look from outside and from the Alexander Garden
        The main building of the Admiralty side, with its spire and little ship — Nevsky, Gorokhovaya and Voznesensky all converge on it.
        The golden spire lit up; the best angle is from the path in Alexander Garden.
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        Admiralty
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Admiralty
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The present building was built by Andreyan Zakharov in 1806–1823 on the site of Peter I's shipyard, founded in 1704.
        • The spire rises 72 metres — it can be seen from Nevsky, Gorokhovaya and Voznesensky Prospekt.
        • During the Siege the spire was covered with a burlap sheath so that it would not serve as a landmark for enemy artillery.
        • The building now houses the High Command of the Navy.
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        🏛 The Bronze Horseman
        Сенатская пл.
        Falconet's equestrian statue of Peter I on a rock pedestal, facing the Neva.
        The monument is lit from below; walk around it to the Neva side so that Peter is against the dark river.
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        The Bronze Horseman
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        The Bronze Horseman
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monument was unveiled on 7 (18) August 1782, on the centenary of Peter I's accession to the throne.
        • The statue is cast in bronze; it was Pushkin's poem that made it ‘copper’.
        • Falconet couldn't get Peter's head right, and it was modelled by his pupil Marie-Anne Collot.
        • The snake under the hooves was added as a third point of support for stability; it was modelled by Fyodor Gordeyev.
        • The pedestal is the “Thunder Stone”, a boulder from near Konnaya Lakhta, delivered to the square in 1770.
        • The inscription “To Peter the First from Catherine the Second” was devised by the empress, who struck the word “erected” from Falconet's version.
        • According to legend, during the casting in 1775 the pipe with bronze burst, and the master Yemelyan Khailov saved the lower part of the statue.
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        🚶 English Embankment (Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya)
        The Neva embankment from Senate Square to New Holland: mansions, palaces and a view across the river to the University.
        Walk along the water: on the opposite bank the Kunstkamera, Menshikov Palace and the Academy of Arts glow.
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        English Embankment (Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya)
        © Regina Ivanova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • It is named after the English merchants who settled here from the 18th century; an Anglican church stood nearby.
        • From 1918 to 1994 the embankment was called Krasnogo Flota (Red Fleet).
        • No. 44 is the Rumyantsev mansion, a branch of the Museum of the History of St Petersburg.
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        🌅 Annunciation Bridge (Blagoveshchensky Bridge)
        The first permanent bridge across the Neva (1850), with lamps on cast-iron railings and a view of the Spit and St Isaac's.
        The finale in the middle of the bridge: the Spit, the dome of St Isaac's and the Admiralty spire all at once. Until 30 November the bridge opens around 1:25 — that's late, no need to wait.
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        Annunciation Bridge (Blagoveshchensky Bridge)
        © Sergpavl · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Annunciation Bridge (Blagoveshchensky Bridge)
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The bridge opened in 1850 — before that, in summer, the Neva could only be crossed by pontoon bridges.
        • At its opening it was the longest bridge in Europe — about 300 metres.
        • From 1855 it was called Nikolaevsky, from 1918 Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge; its historic name was restored in 2007.
        • After the 2007 reconstruction, the cast-iron railings with sea horses and tridents, from Bryullov's design, were restored.

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