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      Vyborg Side: Lenin, Willie and Hygieia

      ⏱ 1 h 10 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A short walk from Ploshchad Lenina: the armored car, the artillery academy, the ceremonial courtyard of the Military Medical Academy and Peter I's hospital church.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Lenin on the Armoured Car Monument
        пл. Ленина
        Lenin speaking from the turret of an armoured car — one of the first large monuments to Lenin, 1926.
        Right at the exit from Ploshchad Lenina, in the park in front of Finlyandsky Station. Walk around the monument: the armored car beneath Lenin is made of granite.
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        Lenin on the Armoured Car Monument
        © Вячеслав Протасов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lenin on the Armoured Car Monument
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The sculptor is Sergey Evseev, the architects Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh.
        • The monument depicts Lenin's speech in April 1917, when he returned from emigration to the Finland Station.
        • The pose “with an outstretched arm” was later repeated in many other monuments.
        • The monument is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
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        🏛 Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy
        ул. Комсомола, 22
        The building of one of Russia's oldest military academies by the Liteyny Bridge.
        Five minutes along Komsomola Street to Liteyny Bridge: the academy's long building faces the Neva.
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        Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy
        © John White spb · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The academy was founded in 1820 at the training artillery brigade on a report by Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich.
        • It took the name Mikhailovsky in 1849, after the Grand Duke's death.
        • The school's roots go back to Peter I's artillery school, moved from Moscow in 1712.
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        🏛 Wylie Monument and the Hygieia Fountain at the Military Medical Academy
        ул. Академика Лебедева, 6
        The ceremonial courtyard of the Military Medical Academy: a bronze James Wylie and a fountain with the goddess of health.
        Along Akademika Lebedeva Street to the academy's main building. The Willie monument and the Hygieia fountain stand in the ceremonial courtyard — you can see them from the street through the fence.
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        Wylie Monument and the Hygieia Fountain at the Military Medical Academy
        © Александров · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The Scot James Wylie was president of the Medical-Surgical Academy and personal physician to three emperors.
        • He bequeathed nearly 1.5 million rubles for a clinic — and a small sum for a monument to himself.
        • The monument was unveiled in 1859; the authors are the sculptor D. I. Jensen and the architect A. I. Stackenschneider.
        • The Hygieia fountain by the same authors was installed in 1873; it is not working now.
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        🏛 Church of Sts Peter and Paul at the Military Hospital
        Большой Сампсониевский пр., 1
        The house church of the city's oldest military hospital, returned to believers in 2015.
        Another 7 minutes to Bolshoy Sampsonievsky: the church is built inside an old hospital building.
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        Church of Sts Peter and Paul at the Military Hospital
        © Daria Funtova · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The Land Hospital on the Vyborg Side was founded by decree of Peter I in 1717.
        • The church first opened in 1755 and was reconsecrated in 1818 and 1865.
        • In 1922 the church was closed, and its premises went to the Military Medical Academy.
        • Since 2015 services have been held here again and restoration is under way.
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        ☕️ Pirogovy Dvorik on Botkinskaya
        Боткинская ул., 15, корп. 1
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        Pies on Botkinskaya — filling and inexpensive, on the way back to the metro.
        🍴 A bakery-café of the Pirogovy Dvorik chain: fresh savoury and sweet pies, good for a quick breakfast or lunch. What to order: cabbage pie, ham-and-cheese pie, berry pie, coffee.

      ↩️ Getting back: To Ploshchad Lenina — about 8 minutes along Botkinskaya Street.

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