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      Shmidta Embankment: the Steamship, Krusenstern and the Ice Rink in a Church

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

      Vasilyevsky's Neva embankment from the 7th Line to the Mining Institute: a memorial to the exiled philosophers, the round-the-world admiral and a church that once housed an ice arena.

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        🏛 “Philosophers' Ship” Memorial Sign
        наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта
        A marker by the Neva commemorating the expulsion of scholars and philosophers in 1922: the ships left for Germany from this embankment.
        From Vasileostrovskaya along the 7th Line to the Neva — 12 minutes. The marker is by the granite parapet; across the river you can see English Embankment.
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        • The sign was installed in 2003.
        • In autumn 1922 the steamships Oberbürgermeister Haken and Preussen took the exiled scholars and philosophers from Petrograd to Stettin.
        • The exiles were allowed one winter and one summer coat and a couple of sets of underwear each; gold and valuables were forbidden.
        • The name “Philosophers' Ship” was coined by the philosopher Sergey Khoruzhy in 1990.
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        🏛 Krusenstern Monument
        наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, напротив Морского корпуса
        A bronze admiral with arms crossed on his chest by the Neva, opposite the Naval Cadet Corps that he headed.
        A couple of minutes downstream — the admiral opposite the Naval Cadet Corps. Notice the dirk: it's the original, returned.
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        Krusenstern Monument
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monument was unveiled on 6 November 1873; the sculptor was Ivan Schröder and the architect Ippolit Monighetti.
        • The site was chosen opposite the Naval Cadet Corps, where Krusenstern studied and was later director.
        • In the 1970s the bronze dirk was stolen from the monument; the original was found and returned in 1999.
        • The inscription on the pedestal reads: “To the first Russian circumnavigator, Admiral Ivan Fyodorovich Krusenstern”.
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      5. 3
        ☕️ Gussi Coffee
        наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, 21
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        Take-away coffee or cocoa at No. 21, on the way to the metochion.
        🍴 A small coffee shop on the embankment between the Krusenstern monument and the Dormition Metochion: coffee, hot chocolate, sandwiches and desserts.
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        🏛 Dormition Church — Optina Pustyn Metochion
        наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, 27
        A church of the late 19th century on the embankment; in Soviet years Leningrad's first covered ice rink was set up here.
        No. 27 on the corner of the 15th Line. You can go in during the day — see how high the hall is where ice used to be poured.
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        Dormition Church — Optina Pustyn Metochion
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dormition Church — Optina Pustyn Metochion
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was laid in 1895 for the metochion of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and consecrated in December 1897.
        • It was closed in 1932, though services continued until January 1935.
        • By order of Anastas Mikoyan the building was given over to Leningrad's first covered ice rink, which opened in 1961.
        • In 1991 the church was transferred to Optina Pustyn; the first services were held in the rink's former choreography hall.
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        🖼 Icebreaker Krasin
        наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, у 23-й линии
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        You can go down into the engine room
        Further along the Neva to the 23rd Line: you can see the icebreaker Krasin from the embankment. From here it's 7 minutes to Gorny Institut along the 23rd Line.
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        Icebreaker Krasin
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Icebreaker Krasin
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The icebreaker was built in 1916–1917 in Newcastle, England, at the Armstrong Whitworth yard, under the name ‘Svyatogor’.
        • The design was an improved version of Makarov's ‘Yermak’, with engines of 10,000 horsepower.
        • The engineer and future writer Yevgeny Zamyatin took part in assembling the ship in England.
        • In 1918 the icebreaker was sunk in the Northern Dvina to block the interventionists, but in 1920 they took it away to Britain.
        • In 1927 the icebreaker was named after Leonid Krasin, the diplomat who secured the ship's purchase back from England.
        • In the war the Krasin passed through the Panama Canal and went to the Arctic as part of the northern convoy PQ-15.
        • In the film “The Red Tent” (1969) the Krasin was played by another icebreaker, the ‘Sibiryakov’.

      ↩️ Getting back: To Gorny Institut — 7 minutes along the 21st or 23rd Line; to Vasileostrovskaya — 20 minutes.

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