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      Apothecary Island: Radio, Stolypin and Thon's Church

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A short loop from Petrogradskaya beyond the Karpovka: a monument to the inventor of radio, an obelisk on the site of the premier's blown-up dacha and a church where Bryullov painted.

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        🏛 Popov Monument
        сквер Профессора Попова, Каменноостровский пр.
        A seven-metre monument to the inventor of radio in a park on Kamennoostrovsky, two steps from Petrogradskaya.
        Exit Petrogradskaya and you're right at the park with Popov. The inscription on the pedestal is laconic: his name, years of life and “inventor of radio”.
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        Popov Monument
        © Тулип · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monument was unveiled on 22 March 1959 — for the 100th anniversary of Alexander Popov.
        • The competition was won by Vladimir Bogolyubov; after his death the work was completed by Mikhail Anikushin and other sculptors under Vera Isaeva.
        • The monument is 7.6 metres tall: the pedestal 3.6 metres, the figure 3.
        • The granite for the pedestal was quarried at the Kuznechnoye quarry in Karelia.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Karpovka Embankment
        A narrow river with granite embankments and trees, winding through the Petrogradskaya Side.
        Along Kamennoostrovsky to the bridge over the Karpovka and right along the water. The embankment is quiet and pleasant to follow to Aptekarsky Prospekt.
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        Karpovka Embankment
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Karpovka is an arm of the Neva 3 km long and about 20 m wide, between Petrogradsky and Aptekarsky islands.
        • The name is a corruption of the Finnish Korpijoki, translated both as “forest” and as “crow” river.
        • The banks of the Karpovka were faced with granite only in the 1960s–70s.
        • No. 13 is the first residential building of the Leningrad Soviet (1932–1935, architects Levinson and Fomin), a model of Constructivism.
        • In 2021 the sculpture “Sad Angel” appeared by the Medical University, in memory of medics who died of coronavirus.
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      5. 3
        🍽 Eristov restaurant
        наб. реки Карповки, 5, лит. П
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        If the walk replaces lunch — khinkali and kharcho with a view of the Karpovka, Karpovka Embankment 5. In a hurry — just have tea.
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant on the Karpovka with big windows onto the river and the Botanical Garden, five minutes from Petrogradskaya metro. What to order: khinkali, ojakhuri in a keci, kharcho, aubergines with walnut.
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        • The restaurant's panoramic windows overlook the Karpovka embankment and the Botanical Garden on the far bank.
        • Besides Georgian classics, the menu has European dishes: borscht with pampushki, cream of porcini soup, Caesar salad.
        • Ojakhuri is made in three versions here and served in clay keci dishes.
        • The wine list features Georgian wines from Badagoni, Marani and Teliani Valley, plus collectible wines in painted clay vessels.
        • For kids there is a children's menu and a play corner, and a terrace is open in summer.
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        🏛 Obelisk to the Victims of the Stolypin Dacha Bombing
        сквер Столыпина, Аптекарская наб.
        A granite obelisk of 1908 on the site of the blown-up dacha of the prime minister, by the Bolshaya Nevka.
        Along Professora Popova Street to Aptekarskaya Embankment — 15 minutes. A granite obelisk stands in Stolypin Park by the Bolshaya Nevka.
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        • On 12 August 1906 SR-maximalists blew up Pyotr Stolypin's dacha on Apothecary Island.
        • Stolypin himself was barely hurt; 27 people died at the scene, and his daughter and three-year-old son were wounded.
        • The obelisk was put up in 1908 to a design by Robert Marfeld; Stolypin himself laid the first stone in 1907.
        • The obelisk was restored in 2006.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Transfiguration Church on Apothecary Island
        Инструментальная ул., 3А
        A church by Konstantin Thon painted by Bryullov, a former grenadiers' regimental church; it reopened after being a LETI laboratory.
        Beyond the park — Instrumentalnaya 3A. The church is on an artificial hill; without domes it's easy to walk past — look for the cross above the facade.
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        Transfiguration Church on Apothecary Island
        © Витольд Муратов · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The church was built to a design by Konstantin Thon and consecrated on 16 September 1845.
        • Karl Bryullov painted the Evangelists on the pendentives of the vault in 1845.
        • From 1873 the church was the regimental church of the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment.
        • In 1930 a LETI laboratory was set up here: the domes were taken down and the paintings painted over.
        • The church was handed over to the diocese in 2006.

      ↩️ Getting back: To Petrogradskaya — 15 minutes along Professora Popova Street; to Vyborgskaya — 15 minutes across Grenadiersky Bridge.

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