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      Vitebsk Station and Semyonovsky Parade Ground

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Art Nouveau of Russia’s first station and cosy streets leading to Pyat Uglov.

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        🏛 Vitebsky Station
        Загородный пр., 52
        Russia's first railway station, with Art Nouveau interiors
        Art Nouveau interiors and staircases
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        Vitebsky Station
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        • The first Russian railway, the Tsarskoye Selo line, started here; the first train, with the locomotive Provorny, was driven by Franz Gerstner himself, and Nicholas I was among the passengers.
        • The station changed names: St Petersburg, from 1900 Tsarskoselsky, then Detskoselsky.
        • The present building opened on 1 August 1904 to a design by Stanislav Brzozowski — one of the first public buildings in the Art Nouveau style.
        • The main concourse, more than 20 m high, is covered by a metal dome.
        • Above the main entrance are the coats of arms of Petersburg and Vitebsk, the line's terminals in 1904.
        • On the station's clock tower you can find reliefs of owls.
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        🌳 Pionerskaya Square (Semyonovsky Parade Ground)
        A spacious square in front of the Youth Theatre with lawns, paths and a monument to Griboyedov.
        The former Semyonovsky Parade Ground
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        Pionerskaya Square (Semyonovsky Parade Ground)
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        • The 26-hectare Semyonovsky Parade Ground took shape by the barracks of the Moscow, Jaeger and Semyonovsky regiments at the turn of the 19th century.
        • In 1836–1837 Russia's first passenger railway was laid from the parade ground to Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk.
        • In 1849 a mock execution of the Petrashevsky circle was staged here; Dostoevsky was among those pardoned at the last moment.
        • On 3 April 1881 the People's Will members who killed Alexander II — Zhelyabov, Perovskaya, Kibalchich and others — were hanged on the parade ground.
        • In the 1880s the Semyonovsky Hippodrome was built here to a design by Leontiy Benois; it was destroyed in the Siege.
        • The monument to Griboyedov by Vsevolod Lishev was unveiled in 1959, and the Youth Theatre building in May 1962.
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        🏛 Five Corners (Pyat Uglov)
        An intersection where five streets meet; the corner is guarded by a house with a tall tented turret.
        A little turret at the crossroads
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        Five Corners (Pyat Uglov)
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        Five Corners (Pyat Uglov)
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        • The intersection of Zagorodny Prospekt, Razyezzhaya, Rubinstein and Lomonosov streets has existed since the 1760s.
        • The house with the turret was built in 1913–1914 to a design by the architect Alexander Lishnevsky.
        • Lydia Chukovskaya and the physicist Matvey Bronstein lived in the house with the turret, and Anna Akhmatova often visited them.
        • In 1800 the Commercial School — Russia's first school for merchants' children — moved into the house at the corner of Zagorodny and Lomonosov.
        • Five Corners is mentioned in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Crime and Punishment, and in Vysotsky's song “A Little Voice from Leningrad”.
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        🚶 Rubinstein Street
        The city's main street for restaurants and bars
        A street of restaurants
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        Rubinstein Street
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        Rubinstein Street
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rubinstein Street
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street got Anton Rubinstein's name in 1929 — the composer lived at No. 38; before that it was Troitskaya Street.
        • No. 7 is a 1932 “commune house” without kitchens in the flats, nicknamed the “tear of socialism”; Olga Berggolts lived here.
        • The Leningrad Rock Club worked at No. 13 from 1981.
        • In the same No. 13, Meyerhold's studio was here in 1913–1914, and now it is the Zazerkalye children's musical theatre.
        • No. 18 houses the Maly Drama Theatre — Theatre of Europe.
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        ☕️ Schastye café on Rubinstein Street
        ул. Рубинштейна, 15/17
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        Dessert to finish
        🍴 A restaurant of the Schastye (“Happiness”) chain in the Tolstoy House: breakfasts all day, European cuisine and desserts from their own pastry shop. What to order: syrniki, a French omelette, honey cake, Schastye chocolates with coffee.

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