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Finland Station
3
MAP E2 • Ploshchad Lenina 6
On 3 April 1917, the exiled Lenin and
his Bolshevik companions return ed
from Swit zerland to a triumphant
reception at Finland Station. For ced
again to flee the country for the
summer, they returned in autumn,
once more to Finland Station, and
spurred the 1917 Revolution (see p38).
Peterhof
4
Of all St Petersburg’s splendid
royal estates, Peterhof is by far the
most elegant. It is best visited between
May and October, when the famous
fountains are working and all the
Interior of the Stieglitz Museum buildings are open to the public, but
bear in mind that during this period
Stieglitz Museum
1 it is at its most crowded. Inspired by
MAP P2 • Solyanoy pereulok 13 the French Palace of Versailles,
• 273 3258 • Open Sep–Jul: 11am– Peter the Great set about creating
Gulf of 5pm Tue–Sat • Adm this grand imperial complex of palaces
Finland Area of
Lomonosov main map The Stieglitz Museum (1896) was and gardens in the early 18th century.
A118 P21 originally the Central School of It was later expanded by his daughter,
Industrial Design and, after Tsarina Elizabeth (see pp30–31).
Strelna A121
Finlyandskiy Ligovo World War II, it became
A118 a training centre for
Ploshchad Krasnoe Pulkovo
Lenina crafts men. Today, it
0 metres 800 ARSENALNAYA NAB Selo Kolpino
0 km 10 contains an exhibition of
0 yards 800 Liteynyy M10
Most N e v a Н е в а 0 miles 10 P23 wood and metalwork,
Nab including locks and keys
Troitskiy Kutuzova NAB ROBESPERA
Most SHPALERNAYA UL ШПАЛЕРНАЯ УЛИЦА from the Middle Ages.
Letniy NAB KUTUZOVA
sad ZAKHAREVSKAYA ULITSA The highlights are the
ULITSA CHAYKOVSKOVO TVERSKAYA UL UL DIKTATURY
Letniy Tavricheskiy intricately de cor ated
Sad
Sad Fontanka PER SOLYANOY
Chernyshevskaya Terem Room and the
UL KIROCHNAYA YЛ KИPOЧHAЯ TAVRICHESKAYA ULITSA TULSKAYA UL Grand Exhibition Hall,
ULITSA
MOKHOVAYA
UL PESTELYA with its elegant marble
KANALA
TSENTRALNYY SU V OR O VS KIY P R
NAB LEBYAZHEVO
ULITSA
RAYON UL RADISHCHEVA PARADNAYA UL NOVGORODSKAYA UL KRASNOGO TEKSTILSHCHIKA stair case and dazzling
glass roof.
НАБ РЕКИ ФОНТАНКИ LITEYNYY PROSPEKT UL ZHUKOVSKOVO UL VOSSTANIYA GRECHESKIY PR 2 5
PLOSHCHAD SADOVAYA UL UL NEKRASOVA ULITSA U L M O I S E E N K O SINOPSKAYA NAB СИНОПСКАЯ НАБ Piskarevskoe Peterhof, the “Russian Versailles”
ISKUSSTV
Memorial Cemetery
Smolnyy Convent
9-YA SOVETSKAYA
Nevskiy LIGOVSK IY PR ULITSA MAP H1 • Prospekt Nepokorennykh MAP G2 • Ploshchad Rastrelli
6-YA SOVETSKAYA
Prospekt NEVSKIY PROSPEKT MYTNINSKAYA UL 74 • 297 5716 • Memorial exhibition: 3/1 • 710 3159 • Open 11am–7pm
Gostinyy 3-YA SOVETSKA UL N e v a Н е в а
Dvor Mayakovskaya Pl Vosstaniya PROSPEKT BAKUNINA Open 10am–6pm • www.pmemorial.ru Thu–Tue (May–mid-Sep: from 10am)
• www.cathedral.ru/smolniisobon
During the World War II siege of the
NAB REKI FONTANKI UL RUBINSHTEYNA Dostoevskaya LIGOVSKIY PROSPEKT Moskovskiy NEVSKIY PROSPEKT Aleksandra city (see p38), thousands of corpses Tsarina Elizabeth founded this
NAB REKI FONTANKI
UL LOMONOSOVA
convent in 1748 and planned to see
were trans ported on sledges to
Vladimirskaya
Ploshchad
out her days here, but died before its
cemeteries on the outskirts of town.
Most
ZAGORODNYY PR UL PRAVDY RAZEZZHAYA UL UL MARATA MIRGORODSKAYA Nevskovo Aleksandra Piskarevskoe was the largest of com pletion. Upon the ascension of
these, burying 420,000 people in 186
Catherine the Great, the convent
ULITSA
Nevskovo
2.5 km common graves. With an exhibition became Russia’s first girls’ school.
MARATA
Zvenigorod- ULITSA BOROVAYA ULITSA Ligovskiy PR OBUKHOVSKOY hall and a giant bronze statue of A stunning 19th-century cathedral
skaya Prospekt OBORONY Mother Russia, the cemetery is a with a dome and cupolas topped by
Vitebskiy 1.5 km 800 metres stark reminder of the horrors of war. gold orbs is its crowning glory.
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