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      Quiet Vasilyevsky: Smolenka

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The Lines, a market and the old cemetery where people go to see Xenia of Petersburg.

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        🚶 6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
        Vasilyevsky's pedestrian “line”
        The boulevard of Lines
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        6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
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        • According to Peter I's plan the lines of Vasilyevsky Island were to be canal embankments; the name of the 6th and 7th lines has been known since 1718.
        • The pedestrian Andreevsky Boulevard between Bolshoy and Sredny prospekts opened in 2002.
        • The monument to Vasily Korchmin, commander of Peter's battery on the Spit, was unveiled at 34, 7th Line in 2003.
        • From 1863 one of the city's first passenger horse trams ran along the 6th Line — a reminder is the carriage with bronze horses by Sredny Prospekt.
        • The painter Nicholas Roerich was born at No. 1 on the 6th Line in 1874.
        • Korney Chukovsky lived at No. 5 on the 6th Line in 1905–1906.
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        🧺 Vasileostrovsky Market
        Большой пр. В.О., 16/14б
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        A snack at the market
        🍴 A gourmet market from the 1930s which, after the 2019 renovation, is a food hall with 30+ stalls and grocery rows with their own cheese dairy. What to order: Roman pizza at Piopizza, pho at Bổ, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) at Georgiani, oysters at Fisha.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Smolensky Cemetery and Chapel of St Xenia of Petersburg
        Камская ул., 26
        One of the city's oldest cemeteries, with the Church of the Smolensk Icon, shady paths and old gravestones.
        Xenia’s chapel
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        Smolensky Cemetery and Chapel of St Xenia of Petersburg
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        Smolensky Cemetery and Chapel of St Xenia of Petersburg
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Smolensky Cemetery and Chapel of St Xenia of Petersburg
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cemetery was established by the Synod in 1738 and confirmed by a Senate decree of 1756; today it covers 51.7 hectares.
        • Around 1803 Xenia of Petersburg was buried here; she was canonised in 1988.
        • The stone Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God was built by 1790 to a design by Alexey Ivanov.
        • In 1861 Taras Shevchenko was first buried here; later his remains were taken to Kaniv, and a boulder was placed on the grave site in 1989.
        • Alexander Blok was buried at the cemetery in 1921; in 1944 his remains were moved to the Literatorskie Mostki.
        • A plaque at the entrance says that Pushkin's nanny Arina Rodionovna lies here, although the exact place of her grave is unknown.
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        🚶 Smolenka Embankment
        A quiet river on Vasilyevsky Island with green banks, benches and a view of the cemetery groves.
        A quiet embankment
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        Smolenka Embankment
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        Smolenka Embankment
        © Dj-2 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Before Petersburg was founded the river was called Yamakkayoki, in the 18th century Mayakusha, then the Black and the Glukhaya River.
        • The river received the name Smolenka in 1864 — after the Smolensky Cemetery and to avoid confusion with another Chernaya River.
        • In the 1960s–1970s a new mouth was dug for the river: it used to flow into the Malaya Neva, and now flows straight into the Gulf of Finland.
        • From 1805, on 1 August, the clergy of the cemetery church walked to the river in a procession to bless the water.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
        29-я линия В.О., 2
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        One of the most visited museums in Petersburg — a private museum of contemporary art with a permanent collection and changing exhibitions.
        The finale at Erarta
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        Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
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        • The museum officially opened on 30 September 2010, having welcomed its first visitors back on 20 May.
        • The name stands for “era of art” — “Era” plus “Art”.
        • The building dates from 1951 in the Stalinist neoclassical style; in Soviet times it housed a district party committee, then a synthetic rubber institute.
        • The entrance is guarded by the sculptures of Era and Art by Dmitry Zhukov, made on the museum's commission.
        • The collection has over 2,800 works by more than 300 artists, from the 1950s to the present day.

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