Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Leningrad Hero City Obelisk is a monument in the shape of an obelisk located in Vosstaniya Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which was known as Leningrad from 1924 to 1991. It was installed on Victory Day of May 1985 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Red Army's victory in the German-Soviet War. The monument was designed by architects Vladimir Lukyanov and A. I. Alymov.

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The Alexandrinsky Theatre or National Drama Theatre of Russia is a theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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The St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music is the first museum in Russia dedicated to the history of Russian theatre. The museum's collection includes 450,000 exhibits that tell about drama, opera and ballet art during its existence in Russia. The museum is located in the former building of the Directorate of Imperial Theaters, which is part of the architectural ensemble of Ostrovsky Square, designed by Karl Ivanovich Rossi in the 19th century.

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The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater is a multifunctional theater center. The stage was opened in 2013 in St. Petersburg.

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Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, formerly known as Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater (1931–1992), often referred to as the Bolshoi Drama Theater and by the acronym BDT, is a theater in Saint Petersburg, that is considered one of the best Russian theaters. The theater is named after its long-time director Georgy Tovstonogov. Since 2013, Andrey Moguchy is the artistic director of the theater.

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The building of the Pier Chamber is a demolished monument of the history and architecture of St. Petersburg of the 18th-19th centuries. The building overlooked the Griboyedov Canal and Kazanskaya Street. In the last quarter of the 19th century, prominent architects Veniamin Stukkei, Pavel Suzor and Heinrich Prang worked on its reconstruction and expansion.

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The Palace of the Yusupovs on the Moika, known as the Moika Palace or Yusupov Palace, is a former residence of the Russian noble House of Yusupov in St. Petersburg, Russia, now a museum. The building was the site of Grigori Rasputin's murder in the early morning of December 17, 1916. Sometimes called the Moika Palace to tell it apart from other palaces of the same family in Saint Petersburg, though it is not the only palace on this river in the city.

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The Rimsky-Korsakov monument is a bronze statue of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), the Russian composer, teacher, conductor, public figure, music critic, and member of the "Mighty Handful".

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The Mariinsky Theater Second Stage is the second part of a theatre complex which is made up of the original 1860 Mariinsky Theatre and the 2007 Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall. The Second Stage has been completed and a gala concert celebrating the opening, and featuring performers Plácido Domingo, Rene Pape and Anna Netrebko, was presented on 2 May 2013. The concert also celebrated the sixtieth birthday of musical director Valery Gergiev.

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St. Isidor Church is a parish Orthodox church in the Admiralteysky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the intersection of Lermontovsky Prospekt and Rimsky-Korsakov Prospekt near Mogilevsky Bridge.

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The St. Stanislaus Church is a Catholic church in neoclassical style in Saint Petersburg in northwest Russia.

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St. John's Church is a Protestant church in St. Petersburg, Russia. The church is situated at the address 54 ulitsa Dekabristov, close to the Mariinsky Theater. Founded in 1859 to serve the Estonian community living in the city at that time, it is considered Estonia's symbol of independence. It was the place where in 1888 Jakob Hurt made the call to resist the Tsarist government's russification policy and on March 26, 1917, 40,000 Estonians began their march to Tauride Palace demanding national autonomy.

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The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre is a concert hall complex in St. Petersburg, located in two buildings: the building of the Mariinsky Theatre's Scenery Workshops, rebuilt in the 2000s at 20 Pisareva Street, and the connected Southern Building at 39 Dekabristov Street.

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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.

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