Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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7.3 km
102 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: Театр Дождей
The Rain Theater is a drama theater in St. Petersburg, founded in 1990 by Natalya Nikitina.
Sight 2: Column of Glory
The Column of Glory, sometimes called the Russo-Turkish War Memorial column, is a victory memorial situated in the immediate surroundings of the Trinity Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Completed in 2004 as a gift at the 300th anniversary of the city in 2003, the monument is an exact replica of a monument from 1886 that was destroyed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1929.
Sight 3: Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a Catholic cathedral in the city of St. Petersburg from 1873 to 1926 and the residence of Metropolitan of Mogilev, the head of the Catholic Church in the Russian Empire. Administratively it belongs to the North-West region Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow, led by Archbishop Metropolitan Paolo Pezzi. Cathedral is closed to the building from the street, which is Russia's only Catholic seminary Mary Queen of the Apostles.
Wikipedia: Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Saint Petersburg) (EN)
Sight 4: Youth Theatre on the Fontanka
The St. Petersburg State Youth Theater on the Fontanka River is a theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The artistic director of the theater is People's Artist of Russia Semyon Yakovlevich Spivak.
Wikipedia: Санкт-Петербургский государственный молодёжный театр на Фонтанке (RU), Website
Sight 5: Измайловский сад
Izmailovsky Garden is a park in St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the embankment of the Fontanka River.
Sight 6: Музей Г. Р. Державина
The Derzhavin Estate Museum is the mansion of Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin in St. Petersburg, at 118 Fontanka Embankment, next to Derzhavinsky Lane. Since 2003, it has been a literary and memorial museum, a branch of the All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin.
Sight 7: Д. И. Менделеев
The Mendeleev Monument is a sculptural monument to the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. It is located in St. Petersburg near the building of the Chamber of Weights and Measures on Moskovsky Prospekt. The monument was made in 1932 according to the project of the sculptor I. Y. Ginzburg. It is a cultural heritage site of federal significance.
Sight 8: Obukhovskaya Hospital
The Obukhovskaya Hospital is one of the first city hospitals in Russia. Currently, the building of the former women's building in St. Petersburg houses the Naval Therapy Clinic of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, most of the buildings are closed for reconstruction.
Sight 9: Багратионовский сквер
Bagrationovsky Square is a public garden in the Admiralteysky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is located along Marata Street inside the block bounded by it, Zvenigorodsky Street, the Obvodny Canal Embankment and Entrance Lane.
Sight 10: Музей-квартира Н. А. Римского-Корсакова
The Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum-Apartment is a branch of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music.
Wikipedia: Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum (EN), Website, Vk
Sight 11: 5 углов
Five Corners is the unofficial name of an intersection in St. Petersburg, formed by the intersection of Zagorodny Prospekt with Razezhaya, Rubinstein and Lomonosov Streets. The intersection has existed since the 1760s.
Sight 12: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The monument to the writer F. M. Dostoevsky was erected in St. Petersburg on Vladimir Square in the Central District of the city.
Sight 13: Собор Владимирской иконы Божией Матери
Cathedral of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is a Russian Orthodox cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of Vladimir and located at 20 Vladimirsky Prospect, St. Petersburg, Russia. The avenue takes its name from the church.
Wikipedia: Cathedral of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (EN), Website, Vk
Sight 14: Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic
The Russian State Arctic and Antarctic Museum is a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was established in November 1930 as part of the Soviet Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, but was not opened until six years later.
Sight 15: Lev Gumilev Apartment Museum
The Lev Gumilev Apartment Museum is a branch of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, opened in St. Petersburg in 2004. It is located in the apartment where the scientist and poet Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev spent the last years of his life, from 1990 to 1992.
Wikipedia: Музей-квартира Льва Гумилёва (RU), Website, Vk, Facebook, Instagram
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