Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Tovstonagov Square is a square in the Petrogradsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is located inside the residential development of the Petrograd Side, bounded by houses No 1, 3 and 5 on Troitskaya Square, No 1 and 3 on Kuibyshev Street and No 4 on Petrovskaya Embankment.

Wikipedia: Сквер Товстоногова (RU)

The cabin of Peter the Great is a small wooden house which was the first St Petersburg "palace" of Tsar Peter the Great.

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Shi-Tza (Shi-dza)-a pair of granite mythological lions, installed during the descent to the Neva on the Petrovskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg. Sculptures have a height of 4.5 m and weight 2.5 tons each. On both pedestals, the inscription was carved: “Shi-Tzu from the city of Girin in Manchuria was transported to St. Petersburg in 1907. The gift of the general from the infantry N. I. Grodekov. " The other pair of sculptures of such lions appeared in St. Petersburg by the three hundredth anniversary of the city at the beginning of the XXI century in the Central District of the city on Litein Prospekt in the Shanghai Garden of the Shanghai Garden created there-see the Garden of Friendship (St. Petersburg).

Wikipedia: Ши-цза (Санкт-Петербург) (RU)

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.

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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.

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St. John's Gate is a gate in the Ioannovsky ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia. They provide passage from the Ioannovsky Bridge into the fortress through the Petrovsky Gate.

Wikipedia: Иоанновские ворота (RU)

Menshikov Bastion is one of the two eastern bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Меншиков бастион Петропавловской крепости (RU)

The State Bastion is one of the two eastern bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, facing the Neva River. It is connected to the Naryshkin Bastion by the Neva Curtain Wall, and to Menshikov by the Petrovskaya Curtain Wall. From the east, the bastion is covered by the Ioannovsky ravelin and a semi-counterguard.

Wikipedia: Государев бастион Петропавловской крепости (RU)

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)

The Trubetskoy Bastion is one of the two western bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, facing Vasilievsky Island. It is connected to the Naryshkin Bastion by the Catherine Curtain Wall, and to Zotov 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 - sortia. From the west, the bastion is covered by the Alekseevsky ravelin, as well as by a semi-counterguard, with which it is connected by a dam - a batardo.

Wikipedia: Трубецкой бастион Петропавловской крепости (RU)