Page 63 - (DK Eyewitness) Top 10 Travel Guide - St. Petersburg

Souvenirs ❮❮ 61

TOP 10 BEST SHOPS
1 Gostinyy Dvor Mall
MAP D4 • Nevsky prospekt 35
One of the world’s oldest shopping
arcades, with over 300 stores.
2 Dom Knigi
MAP D4 • Nevsky prospekt 28
The city’s top bookstore is set in Singer
House, a striking Art Nouveau building.
3 Yeliseev’s
MAP D4 • Nevskiy prospekt 56
A renowned food store mentioned in
Palekh box
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, with huge
Palekh Box
8 stained-glass windows.
4 Grand Palace Boutiques Gallery
These bright hand-painted
boxes originated in the 18th century MAP D4 • Nevsky prospekt 44
in the village of Palekh. Featuring Expensive boutiques located in a
palatial shopping centre.
scenes from Russian fairy tales,
battle scenes or copies of works 5 Passazh
of art, they range from expen sive MAP D4 • Nevsky prospekt 48
This chic 19th-century department
master pieces to cheaper, assem bly- store is housed under a vast glass roof.
line-produced ones.
6 Nevskiy Centre
Chess Sets
9 MAP E4 • Nevsky prospekt 116
Best known for the Finnish Stockmann
Russia has long been famed
for its chess (shakhmaty) and chess department store, the city’s largest.
sets are available in a variety of 7 Imperial Porcelain
styles. These range from the more www.imperial-porcelain.com
Russia’s oldest porcelain manufacturer.
modest options costing around
₽500 to handmade sets that can 8 Northway
MAP C3 • Palace Embankment
go for up to ₽2,500 and higher. A fantastic selection of matryoshki and
typical Russian souvenirs.
9 Erarta
A good spot to purchase contemporary
Russian artworks (see p93).
10 Taiga
MAP C3 • Palace Embankment
Hip boutiques and businesses within
a stylishly restored old mansion.
Russian chess set
Amber Jewellery
0
The Baltic Sea coast holds
around 90 per cent of the world’s
extractable amber. The region is
renowned for jewellery and other
souvenirs created from this fossilized
tree resin. Some pieces contain tiny
insects and fragments of plants that
were trapped in the resin around Passazh department store
50 million years ago.

060-061_Top_10_St-Petersburg.indd 61 10/10/2016 11:59