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      Vasilyevsky’s Lines and Erarta

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The Academy of Arts, the boulevard of Lines, a market and a private museum of contemporary art.

      🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
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        🏛 Sphinxes by the Academy of Arts
        Университетская наб., 17
        A pair of granite Egyptian sphinxes on the steps down to the Neva by the Academy of Arts.
        Start at the sphinxes
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        Sphinxes by the Academy of Arts
        © Alex Fedorov (Florstein) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sphinxes by the Academy of Arts
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The sphinxes were made under the pharaoh Amenhotep III for his mortuary temple in Thebes; in 1825 they were found by the antiquities hunter Giovanni d'Athanasi.
        • Each sphinx, of pink Aswan granite, weighs 23 tonnes and is 5.24 m long.
        • Buying them was proposed by the traveller Andrey Muravyov, who had seen a sphinx in Alexandria in 1830.
        • The sphinxes had already been sold to France, but the July Revolution wrecked the deal — and Russia bought them for 64,000 rubles.
        • While being loaded onto the ship ‘Buena Esperanza’, one sphinx fell and damaged the headcloth.
        • The sphinxes arrived in May 1832, but for two years stood in the courtyard of the Academy of Arts while Konstantin Thon finished the landing stage.
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      3. 2
        🏛 St Andrew's Cathedral
        6-я линия В.О., 11
        A pink-and-white 18th-century cathedral with a Baroque bell tower on the 6th Line.
        Vasilyevsky’s Baroque cathedral
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        St Andrew's Cathedral
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        St Andrew's Cathedral
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The stone cathedral was founded in 1764 and consecrated in 1780; its design is attributed to the architect A. F. Vist.
        • The cathedral was the chapter church of the Order of St Andrew the First-Called.
        • Inside survives a carved, gilded three-tier 18th-century iconostasis, 17 m high.
        • The neighbouring Andreevsky Market is named after the cathedral.
        • Back in 1724 Peter commissioned the Swede Tessin to design a St Andrew's church on the Spit “like St Paul's Cathedral in London”, but did not live to see it built.
        • The clock on the bell tower, made in Kronstadt, was installed in 1894.
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      5. 3
        🚶 6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
        Vasilyevsky's pedestrian “line”
        A stroll along 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
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • 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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      7. 4
        🧺 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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      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.
        Five floors of contemporary art
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        Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Peterburg23 · CC BY 3.0
        • 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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