Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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.

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The Mikhail Mikhailovich Palace is a palace in the center of St. Petersburg, an architectural monument. Built according to the design of Maximilian Messmacher. It is called a palace, although it was never used for its intended purpose, since Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich was exiled from Russia after his marriage to Sophia Merenberg.

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The Bronze Horseman is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet. The statue influenced a 1833 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.

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The Farnese Hercules is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; he was an Athenian but he may have worked in Rome. Like many other Ancient Roman sculptures it is a copy or version of a much older Greek original that was well known, in this case a bronze by Lysippos that would have been made in the fourth century BC. This original survived for over 1500 years until it was melted down by Crusaders in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople. The enlarged copy was made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, where the statue was recovered in 1546, and is now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. The heroically-scaled Hercules is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity, and has fixed the image of the mythic hero in the European imagination.

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The monument to Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov in St. Petersburg is installed in the Alexander Garden in the Admiralteysky district of the city.

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The history of the St. Petersburg tram dates back to September 29, 1907, and the history of its predecessor, the horse-drawn tram, dates back to 1860.

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The House of the Queen of Spades is a mansion in Saint Petersburg at 10 Malaya Morskaya Street, where Princess N. P. Golitsyna lived, who became the prototype of the countess in the story "The Queen of Spades" by A. S. Pushkin.

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The Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a Lutheran church in the center of St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt. Divine services are held regularly on Sundays from 10:30 in German and Russian. The rector of the parish, Pastor Michael Schwarzkopf, is also the head of the North-West Probate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the European Part of Russia. Also in the church building is the office of the Archbishop of the Union of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

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Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, and he also founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD.

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Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four New Testament gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles. Catholic tradition accredits Peter as the first bishop of Rome‍—‌or pope‍—‌and also as the first bishop of Antioch.

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The monument to Gogol in St. Petersburg is located on Malaya Konyushennaya Street and is one of the city's attractions.

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Singer House, also widely known as the House of the Book, is a historic building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the Griboyedov Canal, directly opposite the Kazan Cathedral. It is recognized as a historical landmark and has official status as an object of Russian cultural heritage.

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The monument to Ostap Bender in St. Petersburg is installed near Jaco's house on Italianskaya Street in the Central District of the city.

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The Brodsky Apartment Museum is one of the St. Petersburg branches of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. The museum was opened in 1949 in the Golenishchev-Kutuzov House on Arts Square, where the artist Isaac Brodsky lived for the last 15 years.

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The monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by sculptor M. K. Anikushin and architect V. A. Petrov was erected on June 19, 1957 in Leningrad, on the Square of Arts in front of the building of the State Russian Museum. The opening of the monument was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Leningrad.

Wikipedia: Памятник А. С. Пушкину (Санкт-Петербург, площадь Искусств) (RU)

St. Catherine's Armenian Church is an Armenian Apostolic church on Nevsky Prospect, in central Saint Petersburg, Russia. Built in the 1770s, it is one of the earliest Armenian churches in Russia.

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The Komissarzhevskaya Theatre is a theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is named after Vera Komissarzhevskaya.

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The "Block Ice-Hole" is a memorial sign in St. Petersburg on the descent of the Fontanka River embankment, near house 21, at the place where during the blockade there was an ice-hole, to which the residents of the besieged city went to get water.

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Circus Ciniselli was the first brick-built circus in Russia; it is situated beside the Fontanka in Saint Petersburg.

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