Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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10.8 km
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 PetersburgSight 1: Нижним чинам Лейб-Гвардии Финляндского полка
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.
Sight 2: сквер Николая Берзарина
Nikolai Berzarin Square is a public garden in the Vasileostrovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Sight 3: сквер Семёнова-Тян-Шанского
Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Square is a public garden in the Vasileostrovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Sight 4: Музей школы Карла Мая
Karl May School is a secondary school in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Sight 5: Храм Благовещения Пресвятой Богородицы
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
Sight 6: St. Andrew
Saint Andrew's Cathedral was the last Baroque cathedral built in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Sight 7: St. Catherine (Lutheran)
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.
Sight 8: Музей-квартира А. И. Куинджи
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.
Sight 9: 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.
Sight 10: Museum of Soil Science
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
Sight 11: Menshikov Palace
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.
Sight 12: Spit of the Vasilievsky Island
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)
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: Monument to Alexander III
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.
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