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      Seven Bridges and Major Kovalev's Nose

      ⏱ 50 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The pawnbroker's house, Pikalov Bridge with its view of seven bridges and the bell tower of St Nicholas Cathedral, Gogol's nose on a facade and dinner in an old Petersburg apartment.

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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.
        The house on the canal corner where Dostoevsky placed the old pawnbroker
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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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        🌅 Semimostye (Seven Bridges)
        пересечение Крюкова канала и канала Грибоедова
        A spot from which seven bridges are visible at once
        Stand on Pikalov Bridge: from here you can see seven bridges and the bell tower of St Nicholas Cathedral
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        Semimostye (Seven Bridges)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Semimostye (Seven Bridges)
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Pikalov, Krasnogvardeysky and Staro-Nikolsky bridges at the confluence of the canals form a single architectural ensemble.
        • The Pikalov Bridge is named after a contractor, and in the 18th century it was also called Pereshivkin, after a neighbouring tavern.
        • Of the three identical bridges of the 1780s, only the Pikalov Bridge kept an appearance close to the original.
        • The Staro-Nikolsky Bridge is named after St Nicholas Cathedral, and became ‘old’ in 1849, when the neighbouring bridge was named the Novo-Nikolsky.
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        🏛 Major Kovalyov's Nose
        Вознесенский пр., 36а (дом Челищева, на фасаде)
        The marble nose from Gogol's story "The Nose" on the facade of a house by the Fontanka.
        Look up: the marble nose on the facade is easy to miss
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        • The nose was installed in October 1995 on the Chelishchev house; the authors are Rezo Gabriadze and the architect Vyacheslav Bukhaev.
        • The nose has gone missing from the facade more than once, but was always put back.
        • In Gogol's story the barber Ivan Yakovlevich, who found the nose in a loaf of bread, lived on Voznesensky Avenue.
        • Petersburg has three monuments to Major Kovalyov's nose.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Severyanin restaurant
        Столярный пер., 18/69
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        Dinner at Severyanin
        🍴 Severyanin restaurant in the setting of an old Petersburg apartment: Russian cuisine with northern ingredients and homemade fruit liqueurs. What to order: venison, pike cutlets with mash, sterlet in champagne, cloudberry tincture.

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