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      Tauride Garden and the Smolny Bell Tower

      ⏱ 1 h🚶 1.9 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The mosaic facade of the Suvorov Museum, the ponds and little bridges of Tauride Garden and a climb up the bell tower of Smolny Cathedral with a view of the city.

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        🖼 Suvorov Museum
        Кирочная ул., 43
        🎟 ticket
        A building in the spirit of an old fortress with towers; inside are the commander's awards, banners and personal belongings.
        Facade mosaics and tin soldiers
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        Suvorov Museum
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Suvorov Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The museum opened on 13 (26) November 1904 — Russia's first museum built specially in honour of one person.
        • The money was raised by public subscription: 298,000 rubles had been collected by the opening, and peasants of one village donated bread.
        • The building in the spirit of ancient Russian fortresses was designed by the architect Alexander von Hohen.
        • The mosaics on the facade are “Suvorov Crossing the Alps” and “Suvorov Leaving the Village of Konchanskoye”, each about 4 by 9 metres.
        • They were the first large mosaic panels on a building facade in Petersburg.
        • The foundation stone was laid on 8 June 1901 in the presence of Suvorov's descendants.
      2. 🚶 on foot
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        🌳 Tauride Garden
        🚪 entrance from Kirochnaya Street
        A large landscape garden by the Tauride Palace with canals, hills and playgrounds.
        Ponds and little bridges
        🚪 exit to Tavricheskaya Street
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        Tauride Garden
        © Anzhi86 · CC0
        Tauride Garden
        © Liabilityme · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Tauride Garden
        © Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden was laid out in 1783–1800 by the English gardener William Gould at Prince Potemkin's Tauride Palace.
        • The ponds were filled with water from the Ligovsky Canal and stocked with sterlet, and the soil dug out was piled into hills.
        • The garden opened to the public only in 1866.
        • From 1958 it was the City Children's Park; the historic name was restored in 1975.
        • In Chukovsky's “Moydodyr”, it is in the Tauride Garden that the washcloth chases the hero and he meets the Crocodile.
        • The garden has monuments to Tchaikovsky (1990) and Yesenin (1995).
      4. 🚶 on foot
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        🌅 Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        пл. Растрелли, 1
        🎟 partly ticketed · The climb to the bell tower is ticketed
        A viewing platform on the bell tower — 277 steps
        A view of the city from the bell tower
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        Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The cathedral was founded on 30 October 1748: Elizabeth Petrovna wanted to end her days in a convent on the site of the palace of her childhood.
        • Because of the Seven Years' War money ran out, and under Elizabeth Rastrelli's cathedral was left unfinished as a bare shell.
        • The cathedral was completed by Vasily Stasov and consecrated on 20 July 1835.
        • Rastrelli built the cathedral ‘cold’, and Stasov had to struggle to cut flues for stoves in the walls.
        • The cathedral is 93.7 metres high.
        • The giant bell tower Rastrelli had planned was raised only a few metres and then dismantled.
        • From 1990 to 2015 the cathedral served as a classical music concert hall.

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