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      The centre in the rain: arcade machines and DLT

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 2 km🍽 3📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Short dashes between roofs — kids love it.

      👶 With kids☔️ If it rains
      👶 3–6, 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      DLT and Passage have lifts. The Soviet Arcade Games Museum doesn’t allow large items and the rules say nothing about strollers — be ready to leave yours at the entrance. The short hops along Bolshaya Konyushennaya are on an even pavement.

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        🖼 Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
        Конюшенная пл., 2
        🎟 ticket · the ticket includes tokens for play
        A hall with dozens of working Soviet arcade machines — shooting galleries, racing, table hockey; you can play all of them.
        Battleship and soda for 15 kopecks
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        Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
        © Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
        © Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The St Petersburg branch opened on 15 June 2013 — it is a branch of the museum founded in Moscow in 2007.
        • The museum was dreamed up by three graduates of a Moscow university: they started in a bomb-shelter basement of a dormitory with 37 machines.
        • The machines were hunted down at dumps and in abandoned pioneer camps; often one working machine was assembled from three broken ones.
        • In the 18th century the building stored carriages, and in Soviet times it housed the garages of Leningrad Taxi Park No. 1.
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        ✨ DLT department store
        Б. Конюшенная ул., 21–23
        A historic department store with a huge children's floor
        The children’s floor and a fountain in the atrium
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        DLT department store
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC BY-SA 4.0
        DLT department store
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        DLT department store
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The store opened on 7 December 1909 as the trading house of the Guards Economic Society; the chief architect was Ernest Wirrich.
        • Locals nicknamed it the “Guards housekeeper”: officers of the guards regiments got discounts here.
        • The current name, “House of Leningrad Trade” (DLT), stuck to the building in 1935.
        • The site used to hold the “Volkovskiye Rooms” inn, where Glinka and Saltykov-Shchedrin stayed.
        • After renovation DLT reopened on 6 September 2012, and its retail space doubled to 18,000 m².
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        ☕️ Pyshechnaya on Bolshaya Konyushennaya
        Б. Конюшенная ул., 25
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        Hot pyshki
        🍴 A Leningrad-style doughnut shop with a Soviet interior and an unchanged recipe since 1958, everything served at the counter. What to order: pyshki (Petersburg doughnuts) with powdered sugar, coffee with condensed milk from the urn, tea.
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        🍽 Goose Goose Restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Б. Конюшенная ул., 27
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        Goose Goose — next door to the Pyshechnaya: while the adults have lunch, preschoolers play in the kids’ room; on weekend afternoons it’s better to book a table next to the play area.
        🍴 An Italy Group restaurant by Konyushennaya Square with its own children's room and children's menu — a handy stop two steps from the Mikhailovsky Garden. What to order: for a toddler, a soup from the children's menu; for adults, pasta or risotto from the Italian menu.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Passage
        Невский пр., 48
        A 19th-century department store with a glass roof over a long arcade of shops from Nevsky Prospekt to Italyanskaya Street.
        A 19th-century covered gallery
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        Passage
        © Ivonna Nowicka · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Passage
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Passage opened on 9 May 1848; it was built by architect Rudolf Zhelyazevich for Count Essen-Stenbock-Fermor.
        • From the 1860s Turgenev, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky and Chernyshevsky performed in Passage's concert hall.
        • In 1879 Crédit Lyonnais set up here — the only foreign bank then allowed to operate in Russia.
        • In 1904–1906 Vera Komissarzhevskaya's theatre worked in Passage's hall.
        • In 1961 the first department store for women in the USSR opened in Passage.
        • Passage is mentioned in the title of Dostoevsky's story “The Crocodile: An Extraordinary Event, or the Passage in the Passage”.
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        ☕️ Eliseevsky Store
        Невский пр., 56
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        A sweet finale
        🍴 A food hall in an Art Nouveau building from 1903 (now the Eliseev Merchants' Store) with a café by the display counters, a restaurant on the 2nd floor and “Warehouse No. 5” in the former wine cellar. What to order: cakes from their own pastry shop, tea, shchi in a bread loaf, chocolate as a gift.

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