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      The Moika: from Yusupov Palace to Pushkin

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Along the most aristocratic river: palaces, bridges and the poet’s apartment.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
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        🖼 Yusupov Palace
        наб. Мойки, 94
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        A palace on the Moyka with an enfilade of state rooms and a small rococo home theatre.
        A home theatre inside a palace
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        Yusupov Palace
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yusupov Palace
        © Anastasia Galyamicheva · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • On the night of 17 (30) December 1916 Grigory Rasputin was murdered in this palace; Felix Yusupov was exiled to his estate in Rakitnoye for taking part.
        • The Yusupovs bought the palace in 1830 for 250,000 paper rubles — it was just one of their 57 palaces in Russia.
        • Construction began in the 1770s to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe for Count Andrey Shuvalov.
        • On the Dekabristov Street side, a gate arch and a seven-metre fence with a colonnade survive from the 18th century.
        • In 1830–1838 the architect Andrey Mikhailov completed the White Column Hall, the picture galleries and the home theatre.
        • Today the palace houses the Palace of Culture of Education Workers, with tours, exhibitions and concerts.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Potseluev Bridge (Kiss Bridge)
        A small granite bridge over the Moyka with obelisk lamps, leading to New Holland.
        Kiss on the bridge
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        Potseluev Bridge (Kiss Bridge)
        © Ola22ku · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Potseluev Bridge (Kiss Bridge)
        © Vladimir V. Medeyko · CC BY 2.5
        • The bridge is named after the “Kiss” (Potselui) tavern of the merchant Nikifor Potseluev, which stood nearby from 1739.
        • Construction of the cast-iron bridge began in 1808, but because of the war with Napoleon it was finished only in 1816.
        • Griboyedov wrote that the flood of 1824 had shifted the Potseluev Bridge from its place.
        • In 1907–1908 the bridge was rebuilt to a design by Andrey Pshenitsky, keeping the granite obelisks.
        • The bridge is mentioned in the 1950s song “Leningrad Bridges”, performed by Leonid Utyosov.
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      5. 3
        🍽 Teplo restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Б. Морская ул., 45
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        Lunch on Bolshaya Morskaya
        🍴 A living-room restaurant in the House of Composers: several cosy rooms with a homey feel, home cooking and their own baking. What to order: chicken liver salad, draniki with salmon, a curd cheese bake, the “Aunt Tanya” sponge cake.
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      7. 4
        🖼 Pushkin Museum-Apartment
        наб. Мойки, 12
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        A small memorial museum in the Volkonsky house: the poet's study with his books, the drawing room and the nursery.
        Pushkin’s last apartment
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        Pushkin Museum-Apartment
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pushkin Museum-Apartment
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pushkin Museum-Apartment
        © Meistaru 10 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • From September 1836 Pushkin rented the whole ground floor here, eleven rooms — "from one gate to the other", as the contract says.
        • In the study stands the authentic sofa on which the poet died on 29 January 1837.
        • In 2008 forensic experts found traces of blood on the sofa's leather that matched the blood on Pushkin's waistcoat and a lock of his hair.
        • The museum holds the waistcoat Pushkin wore at the duel and his death mask by the sculptor Samuil Halberg.
        • The first museum in the apartment opened on 13 February 1927.
        • In Natalya Nikolaevna's room hangs her portrait, painted by Alexander Bryullov in 1832.
        • In the early 18th century the architect Domenico Trezzini lived on this plot.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Pevchesky Bridge
        A wide bridge over the Moika by Palace Square — one of the widest in the city, opposite the Court Capella.
        A view of Palace Square
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        Pevchesky Bridge
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Pevchesky is the fourth widest bridge in St Petersburg, after the Blue, Apothecary and Kazan bridges.
        • The first, wooden bridge was built in 1834 to a design by Montferrand — for troops to pass to the parade at the opening of the Alexander Column.
        • The bridge got its name in 1840 because it leads up to the gates of the Court Capella (the Singers' Chapel).
        • Abroad, "Pevchesky Bridge" was a figurative name for the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Empire, which from 1828 stood nearby.
        • According to legend, Nicholas I ordered the bridge built after Count Golovkin, hurrying to dine with him, stepped past the ferry boat straight into the Moika.
        • At the opening of the cast-iron bridge in December 1840, Nicholas I was the first to cross it, in a carriage.
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      11. 6
        🏛 Konyushennaya Square
        A square by the Court Stables Department — a long yellow Empire-style building with a church in the center.
        The finale on the square
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        Konyushennaya Square
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square got its name in 1739, after the Imperial Stables Yard.
        • On 1 February 1837 Pushkin's funeral service was held in the Konyushennaya Church, from where the coffin was taken to the Svyatogorsk Monastery.
        • The Stables Department building was rebuilt by Vasily Stasov in 1817–1823, turning its main facade toward the square.
        • In 1812 Barclay de Tolly set off for the active army from the square, where court carriages gathered.
        • In 1883 the chapel from the site of the assassination attempt on Alexander II was moved here, when the Savior on Blood began to be built there.
        • In the 2010s the stables building was to be turned into an apart-hotel, but after protests by preservationists it was given to the Museum of the History of St Petersburg.

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