Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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3.4 km
38 m
Explore Saint Petersburg in Russia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in Saint PetersburgSight 1: Ши-Цза
Shi-tsa is a pair of granite mythological lions-guards installed at the descent to the Neva River on Petrovskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg. The sculptures are 4.5 m high and weigh 2.5 tons each. On both pedestals there is an inscription: "Shi-tsa from the city of Girin in Manchuria was transported to St. Petersburg in 1907. Gift of General of Infantry N. I. Grodekov".
Sight 2: Peter the First
Sight 3: Cabin of Peter the Great
The cabin of Peter the Great is a small wooden house which was the first St Petersburg "palace" of Tsar Peter the Great.
Sight 4: сквер Товстоногова
Tovstonogov Square-Square in the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg. It is located inside the residential development of the Petrograd side, limited by houses No. 1, 3 and 5 in Troitskaya Square, No. 1 and 3 on Kuibyshev Street and No. 4 on Petrovskaya embankment.
Sight 5: Monument to the Victims of Political Persecution
The Solovetsky Stone is a monument to the victims of political repression in the Soviet Union and to those who have fought and fight for freedom. It stands in Troitskaya (Trinity) Square in Saint Petersburg, near several other buildings directly related to political repression in the Soviet era—the House of Tsarist Political Prisoners; the prison and necropolis of the Peter and Paul Fortress; and the Bolshoy Dom or headquarters of the NKVD, both in the city and the surrounding Leningrad Region. Nowadays, the Stone also serves as a focus for commemorative events and for gatherings related to current human rights issues.
Sight 6: Chapel of the Holy Trinity
The Old Trinity Cathedral was the oldest church in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was there that Peter the Great celebrated the end of the Great Northern War in 1721 and was proclaimed the first Emperor of All Russia. It was one of the city's most cherished monuments until the Soviets ordered its destruction in 1933. The site on the Neva River bank is commemorated by a chapel.
Sight 7: John gates
St. John's Gate is a gate in the Ioannovsky ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. They provide a passage from the Ioannovsky Bridge into the fortress through the Petrovsky Gate.
Sight 8: Menshikov Bastion
Menshikov Bastion is one of the two eastern bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Sight 9: Gosudarev Bastion
Gosudarev Bastion is one of the two eastern bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is connected with the Naryshkin Bastion by the Neva Curtain Wall, and with the Menshikov Bastion by the Petrovskaya Curtain Wall. From the east, the bastion is covered by the Ioannovsky ravelin and the semi-counterguard.
Sight 10: Peter I Monument
The Monument to Peter I in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a bronze statue by Mihail Chemiakin. It was designed and cast in the United States in the 1980s and donated by Chemiakin to the city. It was installed on 6–7 June 1991.
Wikipedia: Monument to Peter I (Peter and Paul Fortress) (EN)
Sight 11: Trubetskoy Bastion
The Trubetskoy Bastion is one of the two western bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is connected with the Naryshkin Bastion by the Catherine Curtain Wall, and with the Zotov Bastion by the Vasilyevskaya Curtain Wall. This flank of the bastion has an additional cover for the gun embrasures - the orillon, in which there was a hidden passage - a sortia. From the west, the bastion is covered by the Alekseevsky ravelin, as well as a semi-counterguard, with which it is connected by a dam - a battery.
Sight 12: Artillery Museum
The Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, also known simply as the Artillery Museum, is a state-owned military museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Its collections – consisting of Russian military equipment, uniforms and decorations – are hosted in the Kronverk situated on the right bank of the Neva near Alexander Park. The museum is managed by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Wikipedia: Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps (EN), Website
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