Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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11.6 km
218 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: Вселенная воды
The Universe of Water Museum Complex is a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is located at 56 Shpalernaya Street. The main exposition of the museum is located in the water tower, built in the brick style in 1859-1863 by the architect I. A. Mertz. The water tower, along with other buildings in the surrounding area, is part of the complex of the former main station of the St. Petersburg city water pipelines and is an architectural monument of regional significance.
Sight 2: Anna Akhmatova
The monument to Anna Akhmatova was unveiled in St. Petersburg on September 28, 2006 on Voskresenskaya Embankment between houses 12 and 14.
Sight 3: Summer Palace of Peter the Great
The Summer Palace of Peter the Great was built in Saint Petersburg between 1710 and 1714 in the northeast corner of the Summer Garden, located on an island formed by the Fontanka River, Moyka River, and the Swan Canal. Its northern perimeter runs along the left bank of the Neva River across from the Cabin of Peter the Great and Peter and Paul Fortress and was the first palace built in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia.
Sight 4: Monument to Alexander III
The Monument to Emperor Alexander III is a monument to the Russian Emperor Alexander III by the sculptor Paolo Trubetskoy. It was erected in 1909 on Znamenskaya Square in St. Petersburg. Now it is located in the courtyard of the Marble Palace.
Sight 5: Ново-Михайловский дворец
The New Michael Palace was the third Saint Petersburg palace designed by Andrei Stackenschneider for Nicholas I's children. It was built between 1857 and 1862 on the Palace Embankment, between the Hermitage Museum buildings and the Marble Palace.
Sight 6: The Pushkin Apartment Museum
The Pushkin Memorial Museum-Quartier is a museum that tells about the last months of the poet's life. Since 1953 it has been part of the All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin.
Wikipedia: Музей-квартира А. С. Пушкина (Санкт-Петербург) (RU), Website, Vk
Sight 7: Academic Chapel
The St. Petersburg State Academic Capella, is the oldest active Russian professional musical institution with a history dating back to 1479. It is based in the city of Saint Petersburg. It has had various names over the years, including "St. Peterburg Court Chapel" and the "Glinka State Choir of St. Petersburg".
Wikipedia: St. Petersburg State Academic Capella (EN), Website
Sight 8: The Winter Palace of Peter the Great
The Simni Palace Petra I is the personal residence of Emperor Peter I, erected on the Neva embankment near the Winter Groove, an architectural monument of the early 18th century, partially preserved and located in the Hermitage Theatre building, is included in the State Hermitage Museum Complex.
Sight 9: Висячий сад
The Hanging Garden of the Little Hermitage is part of the Small Hermitage building, which is part of the museum complex of the State Hermitage, built in 1764-1773 by the architects J. B. Vallin de la Mothe and Y. M. Felten, and rebuilt in 1841 by V. P. Stasov. The Hanging Garden is located on the level of the second floor, above the premises of the former stables and the arena, and occupies the space between the galleries connecting the Northern and Southern Pavilions of the Small Hermitage.
Sight 10: Мало-Михайловский дворец
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.
Sight 11: Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a Russian museum devoted to zoology. It is located in Saint Petersburg, on Universitetskaya Embankment. It is one of the ten largest nature history museums in the world.
Wikipedia: Zoological Museum (Saint Petersburg) (EN), Website
Sight 12: A. Pushkin
Monument to A. S. Pushkin before the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Makarov embankment in St. Petersburg.
Sight 13: Andrei Sakharov
The monument to Andrei Sakharov in St. Petersburg is located on the same area on the Vasilyevsky Island, near St. Petersburg State University and the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The sculpture of the work of the artist L.K. Lazarev was installed on a granite block-recording on the night of May 3 to 4, 2003, the opening took place on May 5. On the front side of the boulder, the inscription is knocked out: "Academician A. Sakharov."
Sight 14: А. А. Валидов
The bust of Ahmet Zaki Validi is a bust of the Turkologist Ahmet Zaki Validi, located in 2008-2021 in the courtyard of the complex of buildings of St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University.
Sight 15: Menshikov Palace
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.
Sight 16: St. Catherine (Lutheran)
St. Catherine's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg with an active parish. It is located at the address: Bolshoy Prospekt Vasilievsky Island, 1a.
Sight 17: St. Andrew
Saint Andrew's Cathedral was the last Baroque cathedral built in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Sight 18: Научно-исследовательский музей Российской академии художеств
The Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts (Template:Sokr) is the first art museum in the building of the Imperial Academy of Arts on the University Embankment of Vasilievsky Island. It claims to be the oldest art museum in Russia.
Wikipedia: Музей Российской академии художеств (RU), Vk, Website
Sight 19: Ivan Krusenstern
Memorial to I. F. Krusenstern is a sculptural monument to the Russian navigator, Admiral I. F. Krusenstern, located in St. Petersburg on the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment opposite the Marine Corps building. It was made in 1873 according to the project of the sculptor I. N. Schroeder and the architect I. A. Monighetti. The monument is a cultural heritage site of federal significance.
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