Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 10.8 km
Ascend 140 m
Descend 149 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 Petersburg

Sight 1: Нижним чинам Лейб-Гвардии Финляндского полка

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Нижним чинам Лейб-Гвардии Финляндского полка Витольд Муратов / CC BY-SA 3.0

The commemoration of the Finnish heroes was erected at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery in St. Petersburg as a tribute to the memory of the lower ranks of the Life Guards of the Finland Regiment, who died as a result of a terrorist act in the Winter Palace, carried out on February 5, 1880 by members of the Narodnaya Volya movement, who attempted to kill Emperor Alexander II.

Wikipedia: Памятник героям-финляндцам (RU)

1120 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 2: сквер Николая Берзарина

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Nikolai Berzarin Square is a public garden in the Vasileostrovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Сквер Николая Берзарина (RU)

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: сквер Семёнова-Тян-Шанского

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Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Square is a public garden in the Vasileostrovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Сквер Семёнова-Тян-Шанского (RU)

1094 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 4: Музей школы Карла Мая

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Музей школы Карла Мая

Karl May School is a secondary school in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Karl May School (EN)

1016 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 5: Храм Благовещения Пресвятой Богородицы

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The Church of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos is an Orthodox church on Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Благовещенская церковь (Санкт-Петербург, Васильевский остров) (RU), Website

922 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 6: St. Andrew

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Saint Andrew's Cathedral was the last Baroque cathedral built in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Saint Andrew's Cathedral (Saint Petersburg) (EN)

432 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: St. Catherine (Lutheran)

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St. Catherine's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg with an active parish. It is located at the address: Bolshoy Prospekt Vasilievsky Island, 1a.

Wikipedia: Лютеранская церковь Святой Екатерины (RU)

785 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 8: Музей-квартира А. И. Куинджи

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The A. I. Kuindzhi Apartment Museum is a memorial museum of the Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi in St. Petersburg, located in the house 1/10 on Birzhevoy Lane, in the apartment where the artist lived the last 13 years of his life - from 1897 to 1910. It was founded in 1989 and is a branch of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Wikipedia: Музей-квартира А. И. Куинджи (RU), Website

436 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: A. Pushkin

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A. Pushkin

Monument to A. S. Pushkin before the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Makarov embankment in St. Petersburg.

Wikipedia: Памятник А. С. Пушкину (Пушкинский дом) (RU)

223 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Museum of Soil Science

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Museum of Soil Science Shuba / CC BY-SA 4.0

V.V. Dokuchaev Central Museum of Soil was founded in 1902 at Saint Petersburg by Vasilli Vasil'evich Dokuchaev (1846–1903). Commonly regarded as the father of Soil science, Dokuchaev started his extensive collection of soil samples in 1880. The first museum of soil sciences in the world, V.V. Dokuchaev Central Pedological Museum, opened in 1904, a year after his death.

Wikipedia: V.V. Dokuchaev Central Museum of Soil (EN), Website

1044 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 11: Menshikov Palace

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The Menshikov Palace is a Petrine Baroque edifice in Saint Petersburg, situated on Universitetskaya Embankment of the Bolshaya Neva on Vasilyevsky Island. Since 1981, it has served as a public museum, a branch of the Hermitage Museum.

Wikipedia: Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) (EN)

1714 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 12: Spit of the Vasilievsky Island

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The Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, located in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Federation, are significant examples of Greek Revival architecture. Designed by French architect Thomas de Thomon, and inspired by the Greek Temple of Hera at Paestum, the stock exchange was constructed between 1805 and 1810. The rostral columns erected on either side of the Stock Exchange were completed in 1811. The Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange is located at Birzhevaya Ploschad 4.

Wikipedia: Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns (EN)

1368 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 13: Ново-Михайловский дворец

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Ново-Михайловский дворец

The New Michael Palace was the third Saint Petersburg palace designed by Andrei Stackenschneider for Nicholas I's children. It was built between 1857 and 1862 on the Palace Embankment, between the Hermitage Museum buildings and the Marble Palace.

Wikipedia: New Michael Palace (EN)

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Monument to Alexander III

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The Monument to Emperor Alexander III is a monument to the Russian Emperor Alexander III by the sculptor Paolo Trubetskoy. It was erected in 1909 on Znamenskaya Square in St. Petersburg. Now it is located in the courtyard of the Marble Palace.

Wikipedia: Памятник Александру III (Санкт-Петербург) (RU)

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