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      New Holland and Kolomna

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

      The city’s trendiest island, the Mariinsky and the quiet canals of Kolomna.

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        🖼 Yusupov Palace
        наб. Мойки, 94
        🎟 ticket
        A palace on the Moyka with an enfilade of state rooms and a small rococo home theatre.
        Where Rasputin was killed
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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
        🌳 New Holland Island
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2
        🚪 entrance from the Admiralty Canal Embankment
        🆓 free entry · The island is free; some exhibitions and events are ticketed
        An 18th-century artificial island with brick timber warehouses, lawns, cafés and a pond.
        The Vallin de la Mothe arch and the island’s lawns
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        New Holland Island
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Anders98en · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island appeared in 1719, when the Kryukov and Admiralty canals were dug for shipbuilders; its area is 7.8 ha.
        • The name comes from the warehouses of ship timber, which was dried the Dutch way — standing upright.
        • Vallin de la Mothe's arch over the canal to the inner basin was built in 1779–1787; it is 23 metres high.
        • The round naval prison building from the 1820s was nicknamed the “bottle” — it is said to be the origin of the Russian idiom for flying off the handle.
        • In the 1894 experimental basin, the shipbuilder Alexey Krylov carried out experiments on ship unsinkability.
        • During the First World War the most powerful radio station in Russia, belonging to the naval staff, worked here.
        • Until December 2004 the island was occupied by Baltic Fleet services, and it was closed to the public.
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      5. 3
        🍜 Restaurants and cafés in the “Bottle” (New Holland)
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2, лит. Т (Новая Голландия)
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        Lunch in the round former prison building
        🍴 The ground floor of the round “Bottle” building on New Holland Island is filled with cafés and street food from different cuisines, with tables in the courtyard in summer. What to order: shawarma on a plate and hummus at Bekitzer, udon and fried bananas with ice cream at Hagao.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Mariinsky Theatre
        Театральная пл., 1
        A turquoise 19th-century opera and ballet house, and across the Kryukov Canal a modern second stage.
        The old and new stages face to face
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        Mariinsky Theatre
        © Nikolai Bulykin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Mariinsky Theatre
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The theatre traces its history to the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, opened on 5 October 1783 by decree of Catherine II.
        • The current building was built by Alberto Cavos in 1859–1860; the theatre was named after Empress Maria Alexandrovna.
        • The first season in the new building opened on 2 October 1860 with Glinka's opera “A Life for the Tsar”.
        • From 1935 to 1992 the theatre bore Kirov's name and was known as the Kirov.
        • In 1916, in Golovin's workshop under the theatre roof, Boris Grigoriev painted his famous portrait of Meyerhold.
        • The second stage across the Kryukov Canal opened on 2 May 2013.
        • In 1988 Valery Gergiev became the theatre's artistic director and chief conductor.
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      9. 5
        🏛 St Nicholas Naval Cathedral
        Никольская пл., 1–3
        A two-storey church with golden domes and a separate four-tier bell tower by the canal.
        The blue Baroque Naval Cathedral
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        St Nicholas Naval Cathedral
        © Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0
        St Nicholas Naval Cathedral
        © Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The cathedral was built in 1753–1762 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky as the regimental church of sailors.
        • The freestanding 74-metre bell tower was built in 1755–1758.
        • The lower church is consecrated to St Nicholas the Wonderworker, patron of seafarers, and the upper one to the Epiphany.
        • At the consecration in 1762 Catherine II ordered the church to be called a cathedral; naval victories were celebrated here.
        • The cathedral was not closed in Soviet times, and in 1941–1999 it was the cathedral church of the diocese.
        • On 10 March 1966 the funeral service for Anna Akhmatova was held in the lower church.
        • In the garden stands the Tsushima obelisk of 1908, in memory of the crew of the battleship ‘Emperor Alexander III’.
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      11. 6
        🌅 Semimostye (Seven Bridges)
        пересечение Крюкова канала и канала Грибоедова
        A spot from which seven bridges are visible at once
        Make a wish at the spot where you can see seven bridges
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        Semimostye (Seven Bridges)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Semimostye (Seven Bridges)
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Pikalov, Krasnogvardeysky and Staro-Nikolsky bridges at the confluence of the canals form a single architectural ensemble.
        • The Pikalov Bridge is named after a contractor, and in the 18th century it was also called Pereshivkin, after a neighbouring tavern.
        • Of the three identical bridges of the 1780s, only the Pikalov Bridge kept an appearance close to the original.
        • The Staro-Nikolsky Bridge is named after St Nicholas Cathedral, and became ‘old’ in 1849, when the neighbouring bridge was named the Novo-Nikolsky.

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