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      Rybatskoe: Firefighters' Boulevard and Poet Slepushkin's House

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The old Rybatskaya settlement on the Neva: a boulevard honoring firefighters, the house of a peasant poet of Pushkin's day at the mouth of the Slavyanka, and a pastry at the end.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🚶 Brandmeistersky Boulevard and the Firefighter Monument
        Брандмейстерский бул., у Прибрежной ул., Рыбацкое
        A short green boulevard by the Neva named in honour of firefighters; by Pribrezhnaya Street stands a sculpture of a firefighter.
        From the metro along Rybatsky Prospekt to Pribrezhnaya Street, 10 minutes. The firefighter sculpture is at the start of the boulevard.
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        • Brandmeister is the old word for the chief of a fire brigade.
        • The boulevard was named in 2023, when Petersburg’s fire service marked its 220th anniversary.
        • By Pribrezhnaya Street stands the sculpture “To the Firefighter”.
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      3. 2
        🏛 House of the poet Fyodor Slepushkin
        Славянская ул., 1, Усть-Славянка
        The old wooden house of a peasant poet from Pushkin’s time, at the mouth of the Slavyanka; it is currently being restored.
        Along Pribrezhnaya east to Slavyanskaya Street, to the mouth of the Slavyanka. The house is under restoration — we look from outside, over the fence.
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        House of the poet Fyodor Slepushkin
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        • In 1812 Slepushkin moved to the Rybatskaya Sloboda; in his free hours he drew, read and wrote poetry.
        • His fables were printed in 1822 by Pavel Svinyin in Otechestvennye Zapiski.
        • The first volume of the “peasant poet’s” verse came out in 1826.
        • The house was badly damaged by fire in September 2013; in 2021 it was handed to the Nevskaya Zastava Museum for restoration.
        • Slepushkin died of cholera in 1848 and is buried in Rybatskoye.
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        ☕️ Sever-Metropol Café-Patisserie on Pribrezhnaya
        Прибрежная ул., 18
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        Back along Pribrezhnaya, No. 18. A korzinochka (shortcrust basket cake) or a Prague cake with tea; it's 5 minutes to Rybatskoe metro.
        🍴 A café of the Petersburg patisserie Sever-Metropol by Rybatskoye metro: cakes and pastries from its own production, breakfasts and lunches. What to order: the "Northern Honey" cake, a "Bouchée" pastry, cherry strudel, signature tea.

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