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      Art Nouveau of the Petrogradskaya Side

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt — an open-air Art Nouveau museum.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture
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        🧺 Sytny Market
        Сытнинская пл., 5
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        Breakfast at the oldest market
        🍴 The city's oldest market, in a building of 1913: meat, dairy and fruit rows, a café on the second floor. What to order: chicken Kyiv at the “180°” (Kotletnaya) stall, plov with flatbread at Plovnaya, farm cheeses and curd cheese.
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        🏛 Lidval House
        Каменноостровский пр., 1–3
        An apartment building with a ceremonial courtyard where every window and facade detail is different — a model of Northern Art Nouveau.
        A masterpiece of Northern Art Nouveau
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        Lidval House
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1899–1904 — Fyodor Lidval's first independent work, commissioned by his mother Ida Lidval.
        • The north wing served as the Lidval family's own mansion.
        • Four buildings of different heights surround a cour d'honneur, separated from the avenue by a fence on posts of red Finnish granite.
        • The facades carry reliefs of birds, animals and plants, and the year the building was finished is carved above the central portal.
        • The plot is trapezoid, yet Lidval managed without rooms with acute and obtuse angles.
        • In 1909 the painter Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin lived in the house, and in 1904 the family of General Kuropatkin.
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        🏛 House with Towers
        пл. Льва Толстого
        An apartment building with two tall towers on the corner of Kamennoostrovsky — the architectural dominant of the square.
        The house with towers on Leo Tolstoy Square
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        House with Towers
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Construction of the House with Towers was completed in 1915; the architectural part was designed by Andrey Belogrud.
        • The developer was the engineer Konstantin Rosenstein, and he built this house for himself.
        • The floors are held by multi-span I-beams — an invention of Rosenstein himself.
        • In 1996 the Andrey Mironov Russian Entreprise Theatre opened in the house.
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        🏛 House of the Emir of Bukhara
        Каменноостровский пр., 44Б
        An apartment building of 1913–1914 with facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos, built for the Emir of Bukhara (designed by Stepan Krichinsky).
        The Emir of Bukhara’s house
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        House of the Emir of Bukhara
        © Тулип · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1913–1914 on commission from the Emir of Bukhara for his son Sayyid Alim Khan; in fact, it is an apartment building.
        • The architect is Stepan Krichinsky, who also took part in building the Cathedral Mosque; the emir awarded him the Order of Noble Bukhara.
        • The facades in the spirit of Florentine palazzos are clad in dolomite marble from the Shishim deposit in the Urals.
        • Because of the First World War the balustrade was dropped, and some of the columns were made of wood instead of marble.
        • Krichinsky himself lived here, in flat No. 4, until 1923.
        • In 1993 the film “Kommunalka” was shot in the house; local legend says an underground passage leads from here to the mosque.
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        🚶 Karpovka Embankment
        A narrow river with granite embankments and trees, winding through the Petrogradskaya Side.
        The quiet Karpovka embankment
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        Karpovka Embankment
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        • The Karpovka is an arm of the Neva 3 km long and about 20 m wide, between Petrogradsky and Aptekarsky islands.
        • The name is a corruption of the Finnish Korpijoki, translated both as “forest” and as “crow” river.
        • The banks of the Karpovka were faced with granite only in the 1960s–70s.
        • No. 13 is the first residential building of the Leningrad Soviet (1932–1935, architects Levinson and Fomin), a model of Constructivism.
        • In 2021 the sculpture “Sad Angel” appeared by the Medical University, in memory of medics who died of coronavirus.

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