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      Art Nouveau dachas of Olgino and Lakhta

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Early-20th-century wooden dachas, the Stenbock-Fermor estate and Peter I’s church in former dacha settlements on the shore of the bay — quiet, green and almost without tourists.

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        🏛 Hunting Lodge of the Counts Stenbock-Fermor
        Лахтинский пр., 104А, Ольгино
        What remains of the estate of the Counts Stenbock-Fermor, whose land division in 1905 started the dacha settlement of Olgino.
        Start at Olgino station (train from Finlyandsky or Lanskaya); after the little house head out to the bay.
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        Hunting Lodge of the Counts Stenbock-Fermor
        © Красный · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The mansion (the "Hunting Castle") was built in the early 1890s to a design by Alexei Kuznetsov and Vladimir Zeidler for Count V. A. Stenbock-Fermor.
        • Because of its white facades the house was nicknamed the "White Castle".
        • Count Alexander Stenbock-Fermor bought the Lakhta manor — 4,564 desyatinas on the gulf shore — in 1844.
        • Olgino was named after the heavenly patron of Countess Olga Stenbock-Fermor; the settlement plan was approved in 1907.
        • In 1919 an excursion station and nature museum opened in the mansion, and since the late 1940s a radio station has worked here.
        • Only the vestibule and the grand staircase survive from the counts' interiors; in 2019 the estate became a monument of regional significance.
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        🏛 Schaub (Tascheit) Dacha on Lakhtinsky Avenue
        Лахтинский пр., 115, Ольгино
        A wooden Art Nouveau dacha of 1911–1913 (architect S. O. Ovsyannikov) associated with Vasily Schaub and A. F. Tascheit. The building is derelict and its northern facade has collapsed — look from a distance.
        The Art Nouveau Schaub dacha (Tascheit) — in poor condition, look from the street and don’t enter the grounds.
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        Schaub (Tascheit) Dacha on Lakhtinsky Avenue
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        • The dacha at 115 Lakhtinsky was built in 1911–1913 in the Art Nouveau style to a design by the architect S. O. Ovsyannikov.
        • After the Revolution Russia's first tennis club met in the building.
        • The architects Vasily Vasilyevich and Vasily Ivanovich Schaub, who lived in Lakhta, also designed the local Church of St Peter (1894).
        • In 2023 a court ordered the owner to carry out emergency works and restoration: the dacha's northern facade had collapsed.
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        🏛 Vogel Dacha
        Рядовая ул., 12, Ольгино
        A wooden dacha of the early 20th century on a quiet dacha street of old Olgino.
        Stroll down Ryadovaya and neighbouring streets — there are many pre-revolutionary dachas here.
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        • The house at 12 Ryadovaya is known as the house of F. I. Trzhetsyak (the Vogels); the architect is unknown, and it is protected as a monument.
        • Among Olgino's residents was the physicist A. A. Vogel.
        • By 1911 Olgino already had more than two hundred dachas, mostly wooden.
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        🏛 Konstantinov House (Steiding Dacha)
        Пролетарский пр., 8/10, Ольгино
        A wooden house from 1910 in the Neo-Russian style with a carved porch and a tower with a weathervane.
        Look for the carved porch and the turret with a weathervane.
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        • The dacha was built in the 1910s for A. G. Steiding and later belonged to the Konstantinovs; the architect is unknown.
        • Before the Revolution Proletarsky Avenue was called Grafsky (Count's) Avenue.
        • From the start the settlement was built only for dachas: industrial and drinking establishments were banned here.
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        🏛 Architect Weitens' Dacha
        Лесная ул., 23, Ольгино
        An Art Nouveau dacha from 1908 that the architect Andrei Weitens built for himself; the neighbouring house No. 21 (around 1910) is also his.
        Art Nouveau with windows of different shapes — an architect’s house for himself.
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        Architect Weitens' Dacha
        © Max A. Khlopov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Architect Weitens' Dacha
        © Max A. Khlopov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Andrei Weitens (1878–1940) built several dachas on Lesnaya Street — houses 19, 21 and 23 — in 1908–1910.
        • Korney Chukovsky lived at the dacha at 23 Lesnaya, where he finished his tale "The Giant Cockroach".
        • Weitens' sons Pyotr and Georgy also became architects.
        • In 1912 about 130 electric lamps were lit in Olgino, and water came from artesian "Abyssinian wells".
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        🏛 Church of the Apostle Peter in Lakhta
        Лахтинский пр., 94
        An 1894 church in memory of Peter the Great, who rescued drowning sailors off Lakhta in 1724; restored in 2019.
        A church on a hill and the 1894 school next to it.
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        Church of the Apostle Peter in Lakhta
        © Alexey Komarov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of the Apostle Peter in Lakhta
        © Красный · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Count Vladimir Stenbock-Fermor gave the land and 20,000 rubles for the church; it was laid down on 29 June 1893.
        • The wooden tent-roofed church was designed by locals, the architects Vasily Vasilyevich and Vasily Ivanovich Schaub.
        • On 12 August 1894 (New Style) the church was consecrated by Metropolitan Palladius together with John of Kronstadt.
        • Some of the icons for the iconostasis were painted by Adolphe Charlemagne.
        • In 1939 the closed church became the Zvezda cinema and the bell tower was demolished; in the late 1980s motor boats were repaired here.
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      13. 7
        🍽 Tochka 59.30
        Славянская ул., 31, Лахта
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        Lunch; from here it’s 300 m to Novaya Lakhta station.
        🍴 A cosy homestyle Provençal-themed restaurant by Novaya Lakhta station. What to order: Karelian fish soup with trout and pike-perch, handmade pelmeni (dumplings), beef cheeks, syrniki (cottage-cheese pancakes).

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