Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #19 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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7.9 km
116 m
Experience Saint Petersburg in Russia in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in Saint PetersburgSight 1: Trubetskoy Bastion
Trubetskoy Bastion is one of the two western bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, facing the Vasilyevsky Island. He is connected by the Catherine Kurtin with Naryshkin’s bastion, and Vasilievskaya Kurtin with Zotov. This Bastion Fill has an additional cover for gun embrasures - Orillon, in which there was a hidden passage - a toilet. From the west, the bastion is covered by Alekseevsky ravelin, as well as a half -contract, with which it is connected by a dam - Batardo.
Sight 2: 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 3: 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 4: A. Pushkin
Monument to A. S. Pushkin in front of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Makarov Embankment in St. Petersburg.
Sight 5: Музей-квартира А. И. Куинджи
The Museum-Apartment of A. I. Kuindzhi 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 6: St. Catherine (Lutheran)
St. Catherine's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg with an active parish. Located at Bolshoy Prospekt Vasilievsky Island, 1a.
Sight 7: Церковь святой великомученицы Екатерины
The Church of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine is an Orthodox church in St. Petersburg on Vasilievsky Island. It belongs to the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, is part of the Vasileostrovsky deanery.
Wikipedia: Церковь Святой Екатерины у Тучкова моста (RU), Website
Sight 8: Музей школы Карла Мая
Karl May School is a secondary school in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Sight 9: сквер Семёнова-Тян-Шанского
Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Square is a square in the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg.
Sight 10: сквер Николая Берзарина
Nikolai Berzarin Square is a square in the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg.
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