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      The Fontanka: Fabergé and a boat ride

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Easter eggs, Klodt’s horses and the city from the water.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
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      1. 1
        🖼 Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        наб. Фонтанки, 21
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        A mansion on the Fontanka with restored halls displaying Easter eggs, jewellery and silver.
        Nine imperial eggs
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        Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        © Ninara from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY 2.0
        Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        © Ninara from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY 2.0
        Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)
        © Guy Fawkes · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The museum is built on Malcolm Forbes's collection: in 2004 Viktor Vekselberg bought it as a single lot just before the auction.
        • The museum opened on 19 November 2013 and became Russia's first private museum of national scale.
        • The palace restoration took seven years and cost roughly 1.2 billion rubles, with no state money.
        • The collection has over 4,000 items, including works by Fabergé's rivals Sazikov, Ovchinnikov and Khlebnikov.
        • In 1928 the building, then the House of the Press, hosted the famous OBERIU evening “Three Left Hours”.
        • During the First World War the palace's last owner, Countess Betsy Shuvalova, set up a field hospital here.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Anichkov Bridge (Klodt's horses)
        A bridge over the Fontanka on Nevsky with four bronze sculptures of a man taming a horse at its corners.
        Find the profile in Klodt’s horse
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        Anichkov Bridge (Klodt's horses)
        © Ninara from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY 2.0
        • The bridge is named after the settlement of Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Anichkov's battalion — he also built the first, wooden bridge here in 1716.
        • The current bridge was built in record time in 1841: the first stone was laid on 22 May and traffic opened on 20 November.
        • The cast-iron railing copies that of Schinkel's Palace Bridge in Berlin — Nicholas I liked its pattern.
        • Nicholas I gave the first pair of Klodt's bronze horses to the King of the Two Sicilies, and in 1846 they were sent to Naples.
        • While plaster copies stood on the bridge, Petersburgers joked that the horses would never come back; the bridge was fully completed in 1851.
        • In October 1941 the sculptures were taken down and buried in the garden of the Anichkov Palace to save them from the bombing.
        • The pedestal of the north-west group kept the marks of a shell, with a plaque about the 148,478 shells fired at Leningrad.
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      5. 3
        ✨ Boat trip on the rivers and canals
        причалы у Аничкова моста
        🎟 ticket
        Boats run from May to October, about an hour
        An hour on the rivers and canals
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        Boat trip on the rivers and canals
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Boat trip on the rivers and canals
        © Voltmetro · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The Fontanka is named after the fountains of the Summer Garden: pipes were laid across it to bring water from the Ligovsky Canal.
        • Until 1712–1714 the river was called the Nameless Channel (Bezymyanny Yerik), and the current name stuck from 1737.
        • The Fontanka is 7.6 km long and 35 to 70 metres wide.
        • The Fontanka's banks were faced with granite in 1780–1789.
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      7. 4
        ☕️ Schastye café on Rubinstein Street
        ул. Рубинштейна, 15/17
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        Dessert on Rubinstein Street
        🍴 A restaurant of the Schastye (“Happiness”) chain in the Tolstoy House: breakfasts all day, European cuisine and desserts from their own pastry shop. What to order: syrniki, a French omelette, honey cake, Schastye chocolates with coffee.

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