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      Puppet theater, Mama na Dache and Tauride Garden

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A matinee at the Bolshoi Puppet Theater, lunch at a family café with a kids' room, the playgrounds of Tauride Garden and the Smolny bell tower.

      👶 With kids🎨 Art
      👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The route is on foot along pavements. At the theater strollers are left in the cloakroom. The Smolny bell tower is a long climb up stairs: the stroller and a little one stay downstairs with an adult.

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        ✨ Bolshoi Puppet Theatre
        ул. Некрасова, 10
        🎟 ticket · for performances
        One of the country's oldest puppet theatres: daytime shows for children and evening ones for teens.
        Matinees run on weekends — for ages 7–12 choose the 6+ mark (on 17 October — “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”). Better to buy tickets in advance on the theater's website. Arrive 20 minutes early: cloakroom and toilet before the show.
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        Bolshoi Puppet Theatre
        © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The theatre began on 16 May 1931 as the "Blue Screen" — the troupe had just three actors.
        • The theatre got the building at 10 Nekrasova Street in 1940 (other sources say 1938).
        • In the first Siege winter the actors staged a New Year show with a tree for children, and in February 1942 the theatre was evacuated to Novosibirsk.
        • Since 1954 the theatre has also staged shows for adults — the first was "The 1002nd Night".
        • The theatre has borne the name "Bolshoi Puppet Theatre" since 1955.
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        🍽 Mama na Dache restaurant at Nevsky 106 · 🧸 play area
        Невский пр., 106
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        Lunch is at Mama na Dache at Nevsky 106 (≈800 m from the theater, then ≈1.8 km along Vosstaniya to Tauride Garden): free kids' room, home cooking.
        🍴 A family home-cooking restaurant by Ploshchad Vosstaniya with a free kids' room; according to directories, there are sometimes entertainers and children's workshops. What to order: semolina porridge and draniki with sour cream for the kids; chicken drumstick with grilled vegetables for the adults.
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        🌳 Tauride Garden
        🚪 entrance from Kirochnaya Street
        A large landscape garden by the Tauride Palace with canals, hills and playgrounds.
        Big children's playgrounds and a pond with ducks. Quietest after 16:00 on weekdays; shaded benches by the pond.
        🚪 exit to Tavricheskaya Street
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        Tauride Garden
        © Anzhi86 · CC0
        Tauride Garden
        © Liabilityme · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Tauride Garden
        © Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden was laid out in 1783–1800 by the English gardener William Gould at Prince Potemkin's Tauride Palace.
        • The ponds were filled with water from the Ligovsky Canal and stocked with sterlet, and the soil dug out was piled into hills.
        • The garden opened to the public only in 1866.
        • From 1958 it was the City Children's Park; the historic name was restored in 1975.
        • In Chukovsky's “Moydodyr”, it is in the Tauride Garden that the washcloth chases the hero and he meets the Crocodile.
        • The garden has monuments to Tchaikovsky (1990) and Yesenin (1995).
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        🌅 Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        пл. Растрелли, 1
        🎟 partly ticketed · The climb to the bell tower is ticketed
        A viewing platform on the bell tower — 277 steps
        A bell tower with a view of the Neva and the whole center — schoolchildren like counting the steps. In strong wind the climb is closed.
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        Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The cathedral was founded on 30 October 1748: Elizabeth Petrovna wanted to end her days in a convent on the site of the palace of her childhood.
        • Because of the Seven Years' War money ran out, and under Elizabeth Rastrelli's cathedral was left unfinished as a bare shell.
        • The cathedral was completed by Vasily Stasov and consecrated on 20 July 1835.
        • Rastrelli built the cathedral ‘cold’, and Stasov had to struggle to cut flues for stoves in the walls.
        • The cathedral is 93.7 metres high.
        • The giant bell tower Rastrelli had planned was raised only a few metres and then dismantled.
        • From 1990 to 2015 the cathedral served as a classical music concert hall.

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