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      Vasilyevsky: the Annunciation, two Catherines and Michael

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Four churches in the northeastern corner of the island — Baroque, Empire and two Lutheran churches — and pies on the 1st Line.

      🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Annunciation Church on Vasilievsky Island
        8-я линия В.О., 67
        A Baroque church of the mid-18th century at the quiet end of 8th Line; Lomonosov was among its parishioners.
        From Vasileostrovskaya along the 8th Line toward Maly Prospekt — 7 minutes. Walk around the church along its fence: the bell tower is visible from the 8th Line.
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        Annunciation Church on Vasilievsky Island
        © Andreykokin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first, wooden, church was built here in 1738–1742 to a design by Giuseppe Trezzini.
        • In 1749 Vasily Trediakovsky was a parishioner, and in 1753 Mikhail Lomonosov.
        • The stone church was laid in 1750, intended to resemble the Transfiguration Cathedral; it was consecrated in 1762.
        • In spring 1769 astronomical observations were made from the bell tower platform.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Church of St Catherine at Tuchkov Bridge
        Кадетская линия В.О., 27А
        A church “in the Greek taste” with a bell tower by Tuchkov Bridge.
        Across Maly Prospekt to Kadetskaya Liniya, No. 27. From here it's 3 minutes to Tuchkov Bridge.
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        Church of St Catherine at Tuchkov Bridge
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Regimental churches used to stand on this site; in the 1760s the Keksholm Regiment consecrated a wooden one in honour of St Catherine.
        • The wooden church burned down at Christmas 1809 — only the church's icon was saved.
        • The present church was laid in 1811 to a design by Andrei Mikhailov the Second; because of the war it took 12 years to build and was consecrated in 1823.
        • The bell tower with a refectory was added in 1861–1863.
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      5. 3
        ☕️ Stolle on the 1st Line
        1-я линия В.О., 50
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        Pirogovaya at 1st Line 50 — a block over. A lingonberry pie and tea — 15 minutes.
        🍴 A pie shop of the Petersburg Stolle chain (since 2002): pies by old Russian recipes, whole or by the slice, sweet and savoury. What to order: a mushroom pie, a fish pie, a chocolate pie.
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        🏛 Lutheran Church of St Michael
        Средний пр. В.О., 18
        A German kirche of the 1870s at the corner of Sredny Prospekt and 3rd Line — a working parish of the Church of Ingria.
        Along the 1st Line to Sredny, then on to the 3rd Line: the church is on the corner. The entrance is from Sredny Prospekt.
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        Lutheran Church of St Michael
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lutheran Church of St Michael
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The community arose in 1731 at the First Cadet Corps.
        • In 1842 German parishioners consecrated a church of Archangel Michael in a private house on 3rd Line.
        • The present building was laid on 23 October 1874 and consecrated on 19 December 1876.
        • The church ran a school with an orphanage and a widows' shelter.
        • Since 1992 it has been a working parish of the Church of Ingria.
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        🏛 Lutheran Church of St Catherine on Bolshoy Prospekt
        Большой пр. В.О., 1/20
        Felten's kirche at the very start of Bolshoy Prospekt: early classicism, a Doric portico and a dome on a tall drum.
        Along the 3rd Line to Bolshoy Prospekt: Felten's church at the very start of the avenue, No. 1. The portico is best seen from the boulevard.
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        Lutheran Church of St Catherine on Bolshoy Prospekt
        © Лосев Сергей Николаевич · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The church was built in 1768–1771 to a design by Yury Felten for the German parish.
        • On the site of house No. 1, the community's parish school had operated since the city's first years.
        • By 1917 the parish had an almshouse, an orphanage, gymnasiums and primary schools.
        • The parish was disbanded in the 1930s, and the church was returned to believers in 1990.

      ↩️ Getting back: To Vasileostrovskaya — 12 minutes along Bolshoy Prospekt and the 6th Line.

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