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      Galernaya and Konnogvardeysky

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The quiet back side of Senate Square — all the way to New Holland.

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      1. 1
        🏛 The Bronze Horseman
        Сенатская пл.
        Falconet's equestrian statue of Peter I on a rock pedestal, facing the Neva.
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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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      3. 2
        🏛 Senate and Synod Building
        Сенатская пл., 1–3
        Two buildings by Rossi joined by an arch over Galernaya, with colonnades and sculptures on the façade.
        The arch of the Senate and Synod
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        Senate and Synod Building
        © Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Senate and Synod Building
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The buildings were built in 1829–1834 under Alexander Staubert; this was Carlo Rossi's last major project.
        • The Senate was laid down on 24 August 1829 and the Synod in 1830; before that both bodies sat in the Twelve Colleges building.
        • The site first held Prince Menshikov's half-timbered house, later the house of Chancellor Bestuzhev-Ryumin.
        • From 1925 to 2006 the Russian State Historical Archive was kept here.
        • Since 2008 the Constitutional Court has worked in the former Senate, and since 2009 the Yeltsin Presidential Library has been in the Synod.
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      5. 3
        🚶 Galernaya Street
        A narrow old street parallel to the English Embankment, with mansions and arches leading to courtyards.
        A street of mansions
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        Galernaya Street
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street appeared in the early 18th century as the road to the Galley Shipyard beyond the New Admiralty Canal.
        • In 1738 it was renamed Isaakievskaya after the church of St Isaac that stood at the start of the street at the time.
        • From October 1918 the street was called Krasnaya, and its former name was restored on 4 October 1991.
        • No. 33, the former von Dervis mansion, has housed the Sankt-Peterburg Opera theatre since 1987.
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      7. 4
        🚶 Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
        A wide boulevard with lawns and trees from Senate Square to Truda Square, with columns topped by Victories at the start.
        A boulevard on the site of a canal
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        Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • From the 1710s until 1842 the Admiralty Canal flowed where the boulevard is now.
        • The name comes from the riding hall and barracks of the Horse Guards regiment and has been known since 1842.
        • The columns with "Victories" at the start of the boulevard were a gift from the Prussian king Frederick William IV to Nicholas I; Rauch's originals stand in Berlin.
        • In 1918 the boulevard was renamed Professional Unions Boulevard, after the Palace of Labour.
        • From 1907 to 1997 a tram ran along the odd-numbered side of the boulevard.
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      9. 5
        🌳 New Holland Island
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2
        🚪 entrance from the Admiralty Canal Embankment
        🆓 free entry · The island is free; some exhibitions and events are ticketed
        An 18th-century artificial island with brick timber warehouses, lawns, cafés and a pond.
        An island with lawns
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        New Holland Island
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Anders98en · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island appeared in 1719, when the Kryukov and Admiralty canals were dug for shipbuilders; its area is 7.8 ha.
        • The name comes from the warehouses of ship timber, which was dried the Dutch way — standing upright.
        • Vallin de la Mothe's arch over the canal to the inner basin was built in 1779–1787; it is 23 metres high.
        • The round naval prison building from the 1820s was nicknamed the “bottle” — it is said to be the origin of the Russian idiom for flying off the handle.
        • In the 1894 experimental basin, the shipbuilder Alexey Krylov carried out experiments on ship unsinkability.
        • During the First World War the most powerful radio station in Russia, belonging to the naval staff, worked here.
        • Until December 2004 the island was occupied by Baltic Fleet services, and it was closed to the public.
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      11. 6
        🍜 Restaurants and cafés in the “Bottle” (New Holland)
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2, лит. Т (Новая Голландия)
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        Lunch at Butylka
        🍴 The ground floor of the round “Bottle” building on New Holland Island is filled with cafés and street food from different cuisines, with tables in the courtyard in summer. What to order: shawarma on a plate and hummus at Bekitzer, udon and fried bananas with ice cream at Hagao.

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