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      Peter and Paul Fortress and the Petrogradka embankments

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 8 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Where the city was born: the fortress, the noon gun, a mosque and the Aurora.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
      👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The fortress is cobbled. The Aurora has steep gangways and thresholds, and strollers are left at the cloakroom. See the Artillery Museum courtyard with its cannons from outside — stroller access to the halls is unconfirmed, so ask at the ticket office. Peter’s Cabin is cramped.

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        🏛 Peter and Paul Fortress
        🎟 partly ticketed · The grounds are free; the cathedral and museums are ticketed
        The noon cannon shot — at 12:00
        Be there for the gun at 12:00
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        Peter and Paul Fortress
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter and Paul Fortress
        © Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The fortress was founded on 16 (27) May 1703 — this day is considered the founding day of Petersburg.
        • The fortress never took part in military action.
        • From 1706 the earthen ramparts began to be replaced with brick ones; the bastions are named after Peter's associates — Menshikov, Naryshkin, Trubetskoy.
        • The Peter and Paul Cathedral was built in 1712–1733 to a design by Trezzini; the bell tower is 122.5 m high, and inside is the Romanov burial vault.
        • The Peter Gate is dedicated to the victories over Sweden; Trezzini designed its Baroque facade in 1708.
        • Until the early 1920s the Trubetskoy Bastion held a prison for political prisoners; Maxim Gorky was held there in 1905.
        • In 1991 a monument to Peter I by Mikhail Shemyakin was placed on the central alley.
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        🍽 Petrovskoye café in the Peter and Paul Fortress
        Петропавловская крепость, 3Т
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        Lunch right in the fortress
        🍴 An inexpensive canteen-style café right inside the Peter and Paul Fortress: soups, pastries, lunches. What to order: borscht, pasta, pirozhki, tea in a pot.
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        🖼 Military History Museum of Artillery
        Александровский парк, 7
        🎟 ticket
        In the courtyard — hundreds of cannons and rockets in the open air
        A courtyard of cannons — the kids won’t want to leave
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        Military History Museum of Artillery
        © Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Military History Museum of Artillery
        © Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum traces its history to the Zeughaus, an arms house founded by Peter I in 1703.
        • Since 1868 the museum has occupied the Kronverk Arsenal, built in 1851–1860 by the architect P. I. Tamansky.
        • The collection has over 850,000 items, from the 14th century to the present day.
        • The exhibits include cannons by the famous founder Andrey Chokhov.
        • During the Yaroslavl uprising of 1918 about 2,000 banners from the museum's evacuated holdings burned.
        • In the courtyard by the Kronverk Canal stands a monument to the Decembrists executed on this spot in 1826.
        • In 2019 a monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov was unveiled in front of the entrance.
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        🍽 Restaurant "Baklazhan" on Gorkovskaya · 🧸 play area
        Александровский парк, 4к3 (МФК «Великан Парк»)
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        Baklazhan at Velikan Park, 300 m from the Artillery Museum: a play room for little ones — handy if you have a younger sibling along; the restaurant entrance has no steps, so a stroller is fine.
        🍴 A big family restaurant from Ginza Project with a view of the Peter and Paul Fortress and a children's room with a ball pit and an entertainer. What to order: khachapuri from a wood-fired oven, khinkali and dolma; for kids, vegetable sticks, pasta with cheese or nuggets from the children's menu.
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        🏛 Cathedral Mosque
        Кронверкский пр., 7
        A large grey granite mosque with two minarets opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress.
        A turquoise dome like Samarkand’s
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        Cathedral Mosque
        © Concierge.2C · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Cathedral Mosque
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Cathedral Mosque
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The mosque was founded on 3 February 1910 in the presence of Emir of Bukhara Sayyid Abdul-Ahad Khan, who gave the money to buy the plot.
        • The project's author is Nikolay Vasilyev; 45 designs took part in the 1908 competition.
        • The artist L. Maksimov travelled to Samarkand to copy the ornaments of the Shah-i-Zinda and Gur-e-Amir mosques.
        • The main dome rises 39 m and the minarets 48 m; the mosque holds 5,000 people.
        • In 1915, to raise money for its completion, the mosque was opened for paid viewing.
        • The mosaics for the portal, dome and minarets were made by craftsmen in the village of Kikerino near Gatchina.
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        🖼 Kshesinskaya Mansion
        ул. Куйбышева, 2–4
        🎟 ticket
        Museum of Political History of Russia
        Art Nouveau and Lenin’s balcony
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        Kshesinskaya Mansion
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kshesinskaya Mansion
        © Potekhin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The mansion was built in 1904–1906 for the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska to a design by Alexander von Hohen.
        • The facades combine red and grey granite, brick and majolica — a textbook example of Northern Art Nouveau.
        • In spring 1917 the Bolsheviks settled here: Lenin worked in the mansion from 3 (16) April to 4 (17) July.
        • Kschessinska filed an eviction suit, naming among the defendants the “candidate of law V. I. Ulyanov”; the judge ordered the party organisations evicted.
        • In 1920 the ballerina emigrated to France.
        • In 1957 the mansion was joined to the neighbouring Brandt mansion for the Museum of the Revolution.
        • Since 1991 it has housed the Museum of Political History of Russia.
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        🖼 Peter the Great's Cabin
        Петровская наб., 6
        🎟 ticket
        Peter I's wooden hut under a protective stone casing on Petrovskaya Embankment.
        The city’s first house — 1703
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        Peter the Great's Cabin
        © deror_avi · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Peter the Great's Cabin
        © Aniacra · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cabin was built by soldier-carpenters in three days, 24 to 26 May 1703 (New Style); its area is about 60 m².
        • Peter ordered the logs painted to look like red brick and the roof covered with shingles resembling tiles — so the house would look like stone.
        • There are no stoves in the house: Peter lived in it only in the warm season, from 1703 to 1708.
        • The first stone casing was put up in 1784 by decree of Catherine II after the flood of 1777; the present one dates from 1844.
        • From the 1740s Peter's dining room held the Chapel of the Saviour Not Made by Hands — students came here to pray before exams.
        • The bronze bust of Peter in front of the cabin was installed in 1875.
        • The museum opened in 1930; today it is a branch of the Russian Museum.
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        🖼 Cruiser Aurora
        Петроградская наб.
        🎟 ticket
        An early 20th-century protected cruiser by Petrogradskaya Embankment — a museum ship with an open deck.
        The finale on the deck of a cruiser
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        Cruiser Aurora
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cruiser was launched at the New Admiralty on 11 (24) May 1900 in the presence of Nicholas II.
        • She is named after the sailing frigate ‘Aurora’, which defended Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Crimean War.
        • At the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 the Aurora took 18 hits from Japanese shells, but survived.
        • A blank shot from the Aurora in autumn 1917 became the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace.
        • In 1941 nine 130-mm guns were taken off the cruiser for Battery ‘A’, which defended Leningrad at Duderhof.
        • The cruiser took up her permanent berth on 17 November 1948; naval cadets then lived and studied aboard.
        • During the 1984–1987 repair almost the whole underwater part of the hull was replaced.

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