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      An evening at Vladimirskaya: Zagorodny and Five Corners

      ⏱ 2 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      From the Art Nouveau halls of Vitebsky Station along Zagorodny in shop-window lights to Five Corners and the lit Vladimirsky Cathedral, and for dinner — a family Georgian café open until midnight.

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        🏛 Vitebsky Station
        Загородный пр., 52
        Russia's first railway station, with Art Nouveau interiors
        Start at 17:30–18:00: the station is open late. Go up to the second floor — waiting halls, staircases and Art Nouveau stained glass.
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        Vitebsky Station
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first Russian railway, the Tsarskoye Selo line, started here; the first train, with the locomotive Provorny, was driven by Franz Gerstner himself, and Nicholas I was among the passengers.
        • The station changed names: St Petersburg, from 1900 Tsarskoselsky, then Detskoselsky.
        • The present building opened on 1 August 1904 to a design by Stanislav Brzozowski — one of the first public buildings in the Art Nouveau style.
        • The main concourse, more than 20 m high, is covered by a metal dome.
        • Above the main entrance are the coats of arms of Petersburg and Vitebsk, the line's terminals in 1904.
        • On the station's clock tower you can find reliefs of owls.
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        🏛 Five Corners (Pyat Uglov)
        An intersection where five streets meet; the corner is guarded by a house with a tall tented turret.
        15 minutes along Zagorodny in shop-window lights. At Five Corners stand by the house with the little tower — its spire is visible from all five streets.
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        Five Corners (Pyat Uglov)
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Five Corners (Pyat Uglov)
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The intersection of Zagorodny Prospekt, Razyezzhaya, Rubinstein and Lomonosov streets has existed since the 1760s.
        • The house with the turret was built in 1913–1914 to a design by the architect Alexander Lishnevsky.
        • Lydia Chukovskaya and the physicist Matvey Bronstein lived in the house with the turret, and Anna Akhmatova often visited them.
        • In 1800 the Commercial School — Russia's first school for merchants' children — moved into the house at the corner of Zagorodny and Lomonosov.
        • Five Corners is mentioned in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Crime and Punishment, and in Vysotsky's song “A Little Voice from Leningrad”.
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        🏛 Vladimir Cathedral
        Владимирский пр., 20
        A five-domed cathedral with a freestanding bell tower on Vladimirskaya Square.
        The domes and the bell tower are lit at dark; the best view is from Vladimirsky Prospekt.
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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
        🎟 ticket
        The writer's last apartment: the study with a clock stopped at the hour of his death, the nursery and the drawing room.
        On Wednesdays the museum is open until 20:00, on other days (except Monday) until 18:00. If you're too late, look at the corner house where “The Brothers Karamazov” was written and the writer's monument by the metro. 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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        🍽 Café Merani
        Разъезжая ул., 33
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        Dinner: khinkali, boat-shaped khachapuri, kharcho. The café is open until midnight every day.
        🍴 A family Georgian café on Razezzhaya Street, ten minutes from Vladimirskaya metro and Five Corners. What to order: khinkali, boat-shaped khachapuri, kharcho, satsivi.
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        • The café presents itself as family-run: the recipes are kept and passed down as home cooking.
        • Khachapuri is served here boat-style, Adjarian-style, and besides khinkali and kharcho there are pkhali and lyulya kebab.
        • The drinks list includes Georgian chacha and homemade Kakhetian wine.

      ↩️ Getting back: to Vladimirskaya / Dostoevskaya metro — 7 minutes on foot along Razyezzhaya and Vladimirsky

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