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      Dashkova's Estate and the Putilov Works

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Princess Dashkova's dacha of 1784, the factory church of the Putilov workers, the Kirov Plant gatehouse with the monument to Putilov and lunch in the Stalinist blocks of Avtovo.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🖼 Dashkova's Kiryanovo Estate
        пр. Стачек, 45
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        Princess Dashkova's 1784 dacha — a museum of the history of the Peterhof Road, where hundreds of estates once stood.
        Start at Kirovsky Zavod metro (700 m). We look at Dashkova's dacha from outside; the museum about the hundred estates of the Peterhof Road is separate.
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        Dashkova's Kiryanovo Estate
        © Nikolai Bulykin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dashkova's Kiryanovo Estate
        © Леонид ВлК · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dashkova's Kiryanovo Estate
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name comes from "Kir and Ioannovo": on the day of Sts Cyrus and John, 28 June 1762, Catherine II ascended the throne.
        • The stone house was built in 1783–1784; the design is officially attributed to Quarenghi, but Dashkova named herself as the author.
        • "I even toiled alongside the masons," Dashkova wrote of the construction in her Memoirs.
        • The semicircular plan gave the house the nickname "Horseshoe"; legend says the empress's horse lost a shoe here.
        • In the 1970s the building was restored as a wedding palace, and since 2007 a branch of the Narvskaya Zastava Museum has worked in the wing.
        • The Western High-Speed Diameter runs right up against the estate.
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        🏛 Church of Nicholas and Alexandra at the Putilov Plant
        пр. Стачек, 48
        A factory church of the early 20th century, built for the workers of the Putilov Plant.
        The factory church of the Putilov workers.
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        Church of Nicholas and Alexandra at the Putilov Plant
        © Spb.Terminator · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church took five years to build from 1901, funded by deductions from workers' wages — 2% of earnings.
        • The design is by the civil engineer Vasily Kosyakov; the church has two floors, the upper one consecrated to St Nicholas the Wonderworker.
        • In 1907 the remains of Nikolai Putilov were moved to the church crypt, although he had willed to be buried on Gladky Island.
        • In 1922 parishioners resisted the confiscation of church valuables with weapons in hand.
        • In 1925 the church was closed and rebuilt as a Constructivist-style club.
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        🏛 Kirov Plant and the Putilov Monument
        ул. Газа / пр. Стачек, 47
        The main gate of the former Putilov Plant and the monument to its founder Nikolai Putilov.
        The gatehouse and the monument to Putilov; the plant's museum is by appointment.
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        Kirov Plant and the Putilov Monument
        © Nikolai Bulykin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kirov Plant and the Putilov Monument
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • The plant dates back to 1801, when the state Kronstadt iron foundry was moved here.
        • In 1868 the enterprise was bought by Nikolai Putilov and became the Putilov Plant.
        • In 1911 the destroyer Novik was launched here — the fastest ship in the world at the time.
        • In 1924 the plant produced the first Soviet tractor, the Fordson-Putilovets.
        • On 17 December 1934, 16 days after Kirov's assassination, the plant was renamed after Kirov.
        • The monument to Putilov by the sculptor Konstantin Garapach was unveiled by the gate in October 2020.
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        🍽 Kuzu
        Краснопутиловская ул., 14/12
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        Lunch in the Stalinist blocks of Avtovo.
        🍴 A Caucasian restaurant in Stalinist Avtovo. What to order: khachapuri (cheese bread), shashlik, plov, starters.

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