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contains more than PETROGRADSKAYA
600 exhibits, ranging STORONA Liteynyy
from tanks and rocket Sportivnaya KRONVERKSKAYA NAB Most
launchers to an Troitskiy
Most
armoured car that NAB KUTUZOVA
Lenin rode in during the NABEREZHNAYA Birzhevoy Neva
Most
heady days of the 1917 VASILEVSKIY DVORTSOVAYA NAB KANALA
MAKAROVA
Revolu tion (see p96). OSTROV NAB REK I FONTANKI
Dvortsovyy LITEYNYY PROSPEKT
NAB LEBYAZHEVO
Most
Museum of
6 DVORTSOVAYA TSENTRALNYY
PLOSHCHAD
Soviet Arcade
NEVSKIY
NABEREZHNAYA
Machines ANGLIYSKAYA Admiralteyskaya PROSPEKT RAYON
Nevskiy Prospekt
This retro museum has DEKABRISTOV GOROKHOVAYA Gostiny Dvor PROSPEKT
NEVSKIY
PROEZD
rapidly become one of SADOVAYA UL
ULITSA
the city’s most popular NAB. K. KAN ALA ULITSA Sadovaya Sennaya Pl/ FON TA N K I
attractions. It is packed DEKABRISTOV VOZNESENSKIY PR Spasskaya Dostoevskaya
with Soviet-era arcade 0 metres 1000 NAB R E K I
games dating from the ZAGORODNYY RAZEZZHAYA UL
PR
1970s and 1980s, which 0 yards 1000
visitors can play with old
Railway Museum
15 kopek coins. Fun for both 9
children and nostalgic adults, This mu seum boasts
there’s also an old kvas dispensing comprehen sive displays on the
machine (see p74). history of the Russian railway system
from its inauguration in 1813.
Stieglitz Museum
7 Exhibits include a model of a
Taking its name
formidable-looking
from Baron Aleksandr armoured train used
Stieglitz, a wealthy to transport Bolshevik
industrialist who revolutionaries in
star ted an art collection 1917 (see p81).
to aid the education
Zoological
of local stu dents in 0
1876, the museum Museum
contains exhaus tive The Zoological Museum
displays of decorative has one of the world’s
arts, glassware and Stieglitz Museum best collections of
ceramics. The stunning, mam moths, inclu ding a
medieval-style Terem Room is a real 44,000-year-old speci men dug up in
high light (see p101). Siberia in 1902. Dating from 1826, the
museum contains over one and a half
Fabergé Museum
8 million speci mens, including stuffed
bears and giant crabs (see p91).
Housed within the lavishly
restored Shuvalov Palace, the centre-
pieces of this fabulous exhibition are
nine of the 50 bejewelled Fabergé
eggs that were presented as Easter
gifts by the last two Russian tsars
to their mothers and wives. The
collection, amassed by Viktor
Vekselberg, includes the first and last
of the imperial eggs and the famous
Coronation Egg, which contains a
tiny replica of the Imperial coach.
The museum also displays a wide
range of other objets d’art (see p68). Exhibits in the Zoological Museum
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