Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Number of sights 36 sights
Distance 10.5 km
Ascend 167 m
Descend 165 m

Experience Saint Petersburg in Russia in a whole new way with our free 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 Petersburg

Sight 1: Palace of Grand Duke Alexey Alexandrovich

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Palace of Grand Duke Alexey Alexandrovich

Alexeevsky Palace is a Revivalist palace compound on the bank of the Moika River in Saint Petersburg. It was erected in the mid-1880s as a private residence of Grand Duke Alexis and his family.

Wikipedia: Alexis Palace (EN), Website

965 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Central Naval Museum

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Central Naval Museum is a naval museum in St Petersburg, Russia, reflecting the development of Russian naval traditions and the history of the Russian Navy. The museum’s permanent display includes such relics as the Botik of Peter the Great, Catherine II’s marine throne, trophies captured in sea battles, and the personal belongings of prominent Russian and Soviet naval commanders. The collection includes paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky, Alexey Bogolyubov, Lev Lagorio and other marine artists, ship sculpture, navigational instruments, naval equipment and machinery from the 17th to 20th centuries and numerous models of ships.

Wikipedia: Central Naval Museum (EN), Website, Youtube

844 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Нулевая верста

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In many countries, kilometre zero or similar terms in other languages denote a particular location from which distances are traditionally measured and some use this as their official country location or coordinates for faster search at space satellites, this is also used for measuring distances between different countries around the world. Historically, they were markers where drivers could set their odometers to follow the directions in early roaming guide books.

Wikipedia: Kilometre zero (EN)

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Центральный музей связи имени А. С. Попова

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The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications is a museum of science and technology founded in 1872. It is located in the historic centre of Saint Petersburg, Russia, near Saint Isaac's Square.

Wikipedia: A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications (EN), Website, Vk

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Водомерный столб

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The water level monitoring system in St. Petersburg is a system of structures.

Wikipedia: Система наблюдения за уровнем воды в Санкт-Петербурге (RU)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Nicholas I

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The Monument to Nicholas I is a bronze equestrian monument of Nicholas I of Russia on St Isaac's Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was created by French sculptor Auguste de Montferrand and unveiled on July 7 [O.S. June 25] , 1859, the six-meter statue was considered a technical wonder at the time of its creation. It is one of only a few bronze statues with only two support points.

Wikipedia: Monument to Nicholas I (EN)

606 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: Открытию регулярного трамвайного движения в Санкт-Петербурге

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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.

Wikipedia: История санкт-петербургского трамвая (RU)

78 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

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

Wikipedia: Памятник Лермонтову (Санкт-Петербург, Александровский сад) (RU)

357 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: House of Princess N. P. Golitsyna

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House of Princess N. P. Golitsyna

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

Wikipedia: Дом Пиковой дамы (RU)

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Петровская Акватория

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Petrovskaya Aquatoria is a historical model museum in St. Petersburg, made on a scale of 1:87 on an area of more than 500 m². The total area of the museum is 1100 m². The model contains the most significant buildings on the banks of the Neva and the Gulf of Finland, erected in the XVIII century. A feature of the museum is the recreation of the water area of the Neva and the Gulf of Finland using real water, as well as the use of its own patented technical developments. The museum is located at the intersection of Malaya Morskaya Street and Kirpichny Lane, in the building of the Admiral shopping mall.

Wikipedia: Петровская Акватория (RU), Website

692 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 11: Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

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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, the Rev. 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.

Wikipedia: Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (EN), Vk, Facebook, Website

42 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Апостол Павел

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Апостол Павел

Paul also named Saul of Tarsus, 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.

Wikipedia: Paul the Apostle (EN)

14 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Апостол Пётр

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Апостол Пётр

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.

Wikipedia: Saint Peter (EN)

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Nikolay Gogol

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The monument to Gogol in St. Petersburg is located on Malaya Konyushennaya Street, is one of the sights of the city.

Wikipedia: Памятник Гоголю (Санкт-Петербург, Малая Конюшенная улица) (RU)

314 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Mikhail Barclay de Tolly

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Monuments to Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly in St. Petersburg are installed on Kazanskaya Square near Nevsky Prospekt in the Central District of the city.

Wikipedia: Памятники Кутузову и Барклаю-де-Толли (Санкт-Петербург) (RU)

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Дом Зингера

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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.

Wikipedia: Singer House (EN)

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Остапу Бендеру

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The monument to Ostap Bender in St. Petersburg was erected near the house of Jaco on Italianskaya Street in the Central District of the city.

Wikipedia: Памятник Остапу Бендеру (Санкт-Петербург) (RU)

107 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Isaak Brodsky Apartment Museum

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The Museum of the Apartment of I. I. Brodskoy 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.

Wikipedia: Музей-квартира И. И. Бродского (RU), Website

275 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Pushkin

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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 Arts Square 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)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Russian Museum of Ethnography

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The Russian Museum of Ethnography is a museum in St. Petersburg that houses a collection of about 500,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Wikipedia: Russian Museum of Ethnography (EN), Website

255 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Академический драматический театр имени В. Ф. Комиссаржевской

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

Wikipedia: Komissarzhevskaya Theatre (EN), Website, Telegram, Vk, Youtube

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 22: Armenian apostolic Church of St. Catherine

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Armenian apostolic Church of St. Catherine Original by Yerevantsi, retouched by nagualdesign / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Saint Catherine's Armenian Church (EN)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Театр марионеток им. Е. С. Деммени

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The St. Petersburg State Puppet Theater named after E. S. Demmeni is the first professional puppet theater in Russia. It is located in the center of St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt.

Wikipedia: Театр марионеток имени Е. С. Деммени (RU), Website, Vk

48 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: Karl Bulla Photography Museum

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The Karl Bulla Foundation for Historical Photography is a private photo salon in the center of St. Petersburg, one of the oldest in Russia. The main task of the foundation is to study and popularize Russian photography of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

Wikipedia: Фонд исторической фотографии имени Карла Буллы (RU), Website, Vk

91 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: Театр комедии имени Н. П. Акимова

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The Nikolay Akimov Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre is a theatre at 56 Nevsky Prospect, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre (EN), Vk, Website

45 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Leningrad Siege Loudspeaker

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Leningrad Siege Loudspeaker

The “blocked reproducer” is a commemorative sign in St. Petersburg on the corner of the building on Nevsky Prospekt 54/ and Malaya Sadovaya Street, where during the years of the blockade a loudspeaker was installed, transferring the news from the front.

Wikipedia: Блокадный репродуктор (RU)

39 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 27: Saint-Petersburg Photographer

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Saint-Petersburg Photographer Poudou99 / CC0 1.0

The Monument to the St. Petersburg Photographer is a bronze monument on Malaya Sadovaya Street in the center of St. Petersburg, erected on January 25, 2001 according to the project of L. V. Domrachev and B. A. Petrov. It is a 2.5-meter figure of a photographer who is preparing for a shoot. The photographer is holding an open umbrella, and an English bulldog is hiding under the tripod on which the camera is installed.

Wikipedia: Памятник петербургскому фотографу (RU)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 28: Museum of Hygiene

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The Museum of Hygiene is a natural science museum in St. Petersburg. It was founded in 1919.

Wikipedia: Музей гигиены (Санкт-Петербург) (RU), Website

402 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 29: Fabergé Museum

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The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg is a privately owned museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was established by Viktor Vekselberg and his Link of Times foundation in order to repatriate lost cultural valuables to Russia. The museum is located in central Saint Petersburg at the Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace on the Fontanka River. The museum's collection contains more than 4,000 works of decorative applied and fine arts, including gold and silver items, paintings, porcelain and bronze. A highlight of the museum's collection is the group of nine Imperial Easter eggs created by Fabergé for the last two Russian Tsars.

Wikipedia: Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg (EN), Website

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 30: Блокадная прорубь

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“Blocade Promobube” is a memorial sign in St. Petersburg on the descent of the Fontanka River embankment, near house 21, on the place where during the years of the blockade there was an ice hole, to which the inhabitants of the besieged city went for water.

Wikipedia: Блокадная прорубь (RU)

533 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 31: The Bolshoi State Saint-Petersburg Circus

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

Wikipedia: Ciniselli Circus (EN), Website, Vk

243 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 32: Peter The Great

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The Monument to Peter I is a bronze equestrian monument of Peter the Great in front of the St. Michael's Castle in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wikipedia: Monument to Peter I (St. Michael's Castle) (EN)

213 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 33: Museum of circus arts

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The St. Petersburg Museum of Circus Art is the world's first museum dedicated to the history of the circus. The museum is located in the building of the Great St. Petersburg State Circus on the Fontanka. Currently, the doors of the museum on the Fontanka are closed due to the overhaul of the circus building. The exposition moved to the House of Circus Artists hotel at 6 Inzhenernaya Street, where it works in the format of an exhibition and a library.

Wikipedia: Музей циркового искусства (Санкт-Петербург) (RU)

336 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 34: Церковь Симеона Богоприимца и Анны Пророчицы

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The Church of Simeon and Anna is a parish Orthodox church in St. Petersburg, on the corner of Belinsky and Mokhovaya streets, an architectural monument, one of the oldest churches in the city. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Former Chapter Church of the Order of St. Anne.

Wikipedia: Церковь Симеона и Анны (Санкт-Петербург) (RU), Website

389 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 35: На Литейном

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The State Dramatic Theatre on Liteyny Avenue is a theatre at 51 Liteyny Avenue, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1909. Konstantin Tverskoy worked at the Liteinyi Theatre as director, Savely Schleifer (1881–1943) as designer. The Narodnaia Komedia took up Meyerhold's experiments from the Liteyni and Hermitage Theatre. The theatre produced many unusual offerings. In 1909 the Japanese play Terakoya was presented. Boris Romanov (1891-1957) choreographed the cabaret The Goatlegged, and Arkady Averchenko contributed sketches and vaudevilles.

Wikipedia: Liteyny Theatre (EN), Website, Ok, Telegram, Vk

802 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 36: St. Maria of Lourde Roman Catholic Church

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The Church of Our Lady of Lurda is a Catholic church in the Liteiny District of St. Petersburg. It was built in 1903-1909 for the needs of the French Catholic community according to the project of architects L. N. Benois and M. M. Peretyatkovich. It was consecrated on December 5, 1909 by Bishop John Tseplyak. From 1938 to 1992, the temple remained the only functioning Catholic church in Leningrad.

Wikipedia: Храм Лурдской Божией Матери (Санкт-Петербург) (RU)

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