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Brightly coloured wall mural in the Street Art Museum
Street Art Museum
7 Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,
which are accessed by labyrinthine
Shosse Revolyutsii 84 • 448
1593 • www.streetartmuseum.ru narrow passages. Opening times are
Founded in 2011 after a graffiti unpredictable, but try to seek out
party at a partially abandoned the Mosaic Courtyard in Nab. Reki
factory in the suburbs, the site’s Fontanki 4, and the Wizard of Oz
Soviet-era workshops are now Courtyard in Ulitsa Pravdy 2–8.
adorned with massive wall-sized
Razliv Museum Centre
murals by street artists from all 9
over the world. During the summer Ulitsa Yemelyanova 3, Razliv •
months, regular graffiti exhibitions 437 3098 • Open 11am–6pm Thu–Tue
are held in the complex’s cavernous • Adm • www.razlivmuseum.spb.ru
boiler room. Located some 40 km northwest of
St Petersburg, Lenin’s two historic
Hidden Passages
8 hideouts – a wooden shed and a
simple hut – have been left just the
Behind the fine façades of
some of central St Petersburg’s way they were when he used them to
19th-century residential buildings escape arrest in 1917. In the days of
are hidden courtyards reminiscent of Communism the museum was often
visited by school groups,
but today there are very
few tourists around.
GRAZHDANKA Zhelyabova 25
0
Pyshechnaya
PR NEPOKORENNYKH
(Doughnut Café)
PR NEPOKORENNYKH
PISKAREVSKIY PR
PRIMORSKIY PR
PISKAREVKA Bolshaya Konushennaya
20 km ulitsa 25 • 314 0868
Finlyandskiy • Open 9am–8pm
Serving sweet coffee and
sticky, hot doughnuts, this
KAMENNOOSTROVSKIY PR
VASILEVSKIY
OSTROV legendary café is about as
N e v a close as you can get to an
TSENTRALNYY NEVSKIY PR
Ladozhskiy authentic experience of
Moskovskiy
Vitebskiy Soviet Russia. It has
changed little since it
0 km 3
Baltiyskiy opened in 1958 and has a
40 km 0 miles 3 resolutely retro interior.
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