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      Liteyny: Akhmatova and Brodsky

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Poetic Liteyny — from Fountain House to “A Room and a Half”.

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        🖼 Fountain House — Akhmatova Museum
        наб. Фонтанки, 34 (вход с Литейного, 53)
        🎟 ticket · The Fountain House garden is free
        The Sheremetevs' Baroque palace on the Fontanka; in the wing is a museum with the poet's rooms and literary exhibitions.
        Akhmatova’s apartment in the Sheremetev Palace
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        Fountain House — Akhmatova Museum
        © Ptahh · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum opened on 24 June 1989, for Akhmatova's centenary.
        • Akhmatova lived in the south wing from 1924 to 1952, in Nikolay Punin's flat.
        • She first moved into the Fountain House in 1918, to the north wing, to live with her second husband Vladimir Shileyko.
        • The arch at the entrance from Liteyny is covered with poem-graffiti; when there are too many inscriptions, museum staff photograph and paint over them.
        • The collection has over 51,000 items, including a Modigliani drawing from 1911.
        • In 2005 Joseph Brodsky's “American Study” opened on the ground floor.
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      3. 2
        🌳 Sheremetev Garden
        A quiet garden behind the Fountain House with old trees and benches, away from the noise of Liteyny.
        A garden with Brodsky’s “American Study”
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        • Peter I granted the plot on the Fontanka to Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev in 1712.
        • In the 1730s a large pond was dug on the plot, and the soil was used to raise the level of Liteyny Prospekt.
        • In the early 20th century, when apartment buildings were put up on Liteyny, the garden's Grotto, Hermitage, Orangery and Chinese Pavilion were demolished.
        • In the Sheremetev Palace, which the garden adjoins, Orest Kiprensky painted his famous portrait of Pushkin in 1827.
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      5. 3
        🍸 Union Bar
        Литейный пр., 55
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        An evening drink at Union Bar — opens at 18:00
        🍴 A bar with an industrial interior, DJs and concerts, open until morning. What to order: a burger, draught beer, a signature cocktail.
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        🖼 Brodsky Museum “A Room and a Half”
        Литейный пр., 24 (дом Мурузи; вход с ул. Короленко, 14)
        🎟 ticket · Entry by timed slots; better to book tickets in advance
        A communal flat in the Muruzi apartment building: the family's empty rooms and an exhibition space next door.
        The rooms where Brodsky grew up
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        Brodsky Museum “A Room and a Half”
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Joseph Brodsky lived in flat No. 28 of this building from 1955 until he left the USSR in 1972.
        • The “A Room and a Half” museum officially opened in May 2020; the architectural concept was developed by Alexander Brodsky.
        • The foundation bought four of the communal flat's five rooms; the last, unbought one was walled off from the museum with a temporary partition.
        • The Muruzi House was built in 1874–1877 in the neo-Moorish style; the inscription on the gate repeats the motto of the emirs of the Alhambra.
        • Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius lived in this house for 23 years.
        • In the early 1920s the Petrograd House of Poets worked here on Nikolay Gumilyov's initiative.
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        🏛 Transfiguration Cathedral
        Преображенская пл., 1
        A yellow-and-white Empire-style guards' cathedral with five domes, rebuilt by Stasov.
        A fence made of captured cannons
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        Transfiguration Cathedral
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Transfiguration Cathedral
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Transfiguration Cathedral
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The first church was built in 1743–1754 in memory of the Preobrazhensky Regiment placing Elizabeth Petrovna on the throne.
        • In 1796 Paul I gave the cathedral the honorary title of “cathedral of the whole Guards”.
        • In August 1825 the cathedral burned down, and Vasily Stasov rebuilt it in the Empire style by 1829.
        • The fence of 1832–1833 was assembled from 102 barrels of captured Turkish cannons, set muzzle-down.
        • The fence barrels still bear the Turkish names of the guns — for example, “Wrath of Allah” and “I Give Only Death”.
        • The cathedral was never closed for services, even in Soviet times.
        • On the feast of the Transfiguration, the Apple Saviour, a fruit market used to be held by the church.

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