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      Nabokov's butterflies, the telegraph and the Yusupov theater

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 700 m🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Three museums within two blocks of St Isaac's: Nabokov's butterfly collection, the first telephones and a telegraph, lunch with a kids' room and the home theater of the Yusupov Palace.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
      👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✗ hard with a stroller

      Lifts in the Nabokov and Bezborodko (Museum of Communications) mansions are unconfirmed — inside there are stairs. The route is inconvenient with a baby in a stroller.

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        🖼 Nabokov Museum
        Б. Морская ул., 47
        🎟 ticket
        A pink granite mansion with a mosaic frieze; inside are the family's drawing room and library and a butterfly collection.
        Mon–Sat, closed Sun; from 10:00 on weekdays. The family's drawing room and library and the butterfly cases — kids look for the smallest one.
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        Nabokov Museum
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Vladimir Nabokov was born in this house in 1899 and lived here until November 1917.
        • The house came to the family in 1897 as the dowry of the writer's mother, Yelena Rukavishnikova.
        • Nabokov called it “the only house in the world” and never bought real estate afterwards, living in hotels all his life.
        • On 8 November 1904 the drawing room hosted a meeting of the zemstvo congress that adopted constitutional demands; later the Cadet party's Central Committee met here.
        • The museum opened in April 1998 for the writer's centenary and belongs to the Philology Faculty of St Petersburg State University.
        • Among Nabokov's personal things in the museum are index cards, pencils, glasses and a Scrabble game.
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        🖼 Popov Central Museum of Communications
        Почтамтская ул., 7 (вход с Почтамтского пер., 4)
        🎟 ticket
        The Bezborodko mansion: post sleighs, a semaphore telegraph, the first telephones and radios. Tue–Sun 10:30–18:00, ticket office until 17:30.
        Two minutes: entrance from Pochtamtsky Lane 4; closed Mon, ticket office until 17:30. Mail sleighs, Chappe's telegraph and the first telephones — some exhibits can be touched.
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        Popov Central Museum of Communications
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Popov Central Museum of Communications
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum was founded on 11 September 1872 as the Telegraph Museum — one of the oldest science and technology museums in the world.
        • Until 1917 the museum was a closed departmental one, and it opened to the public only in 1924 as the Museum of People's Communications.
        • The museum occupies the former palace of Chancellor A. A. Bezborodko, Postmaster General.
        • It holds A. S. Popov's first radio receiver-lightning detector and the first civilian communications satellite, Luch-15.
        • From 1974 the museum was closed for almost 30 years because the building was in disrepair, and it reopened on 19 December 2003.
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        🍽 Teplo restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Б. Морская ул., 45
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        Across the road. Lunch in rooms with a homey setting and a kids' room; on rainy weekends it's better to book a table.
        🍴 A living-room restaurant in the House of Composers: several cosy rooms with a homey feel, home cooking and their own baking. What to order: chicken liver salad, draniki with salmon, a curd cheese bake, the “Aunt Tanya” sponge cake.
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        🖼 Yusupov Palace
        наб. Мойки, 94
        🎟 ticket
        A palace on the Moyka with an enfilade of state rooms and a small rococo home theatre.
        5 minutes to the Moika. Entry at timed sessions, the last at 18:00. Be sure to peek into the small home theater; teenagers find Rasputin's story interesting — that's a separate tour, ask at the ticket office.
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        Yusupov Palace
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yusupov Palace
        © Anastasia Galyamicheva · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • On the night of 17 (30) December 1916 Grigory Rasputin was murdered in this palace; Felix Yusupov was exiled to his estate in Rakitnoye for taking part.
        • The Yusupovs bought the palace in 1830 for 250,000 paper rubles — it was just one of their 57 palaces in Russia.
        • Construction began in the 1770s to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe for Count Andrey Shuvalov.
        • On the Dekabristov Street side, a gate arch and a seven-metre fence with a colonnade survive from the 18th century.
        • In 1830–1838 the architect Andrey Mikhailov completed the White Column Hall, the picture galleries and the home theatre.
        • Today the palace houses the Palace of Culture of Education Workers, with tours, exhibitions and concerts.

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