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Cathedral of Our Lady
5 Designed by Carlo Rossi in the
of Kazan
early 19th century, it is not far from
MAP M3 • Kazansky plosh chad 2 the Philharmonia Concert Hall,
• 314 4663 • Open 8:30am–end of the Russian Museum, the Circus
evening service daily (from 6:30am and Mikhaylovskiy Castle.
Sat & Sun)
Fabergé Museum
This building was constructed in 7
1811 solely for hou sing Russian MAP D4 • Nab. Reki
Orthodoxy’s pre cious, miracle- Fontanki 21 • 333 2655
working icon, Our Lady of • www.fabergemuseum.ru
Kazan. After the 1917 • Open 10am–9pm Sat–Thu
Revolution, the icon was Opened in 2013 to exhibit
seized by the atheist Soviet Russian billionaire Viktor
authorities. It resurfaced Vekselberg’s collection
many years later in New of over 4,000 pieces of
York and is once again Russian art, the museum
housed in the cathedral. occupies the grand
18th-century Shuvalov
Arts Square
6 A rare egg in Palace. Its highlights are
the nine rare Fabergé eggs
MAP N3
• Ploshchad Iskusstv the Fabergé Vekselberg purchased
Dominated by a Museum for $100 million from the
commanding statue of Pushkin, collection of American
Arts Square is a showpiece for the newspaper magnate Malcolm
city’s cultural institutions and a patch Forbes in 2004 (see p43).
of green among the canals and
Sheremetev Palace
grand constructions of Gostinyy Dvor. 8
MAP P3 • Nab. Reki Fontanki
34 • 272 4441 • Open 11am–7pm
PUSHKIN’S AFRICAN PAST Wed–Sun (closed last Wed of month)
Alexander Pushkin (see p40), whose • Adm
statue stands in Arts Square, was the This elegant Baroque palace, built
great-grandson of African slave Abram in 1750, was originally the residence
Hannibal, brought to Russia by Peter of the wealthy Sheremetev family.
the Great. Hannibal gained popularity During the Soviet period, one of the
around the court of the tsar and served atta ched communal flats was the
as the governor of Tallinn (then known
as Reval). Pushkin, who owed his home of Anna Akhmatova (see p41),
distinctive curly hair to Hannibal, even who lived here for nearly 30 years.
began a novel (unfinished) about him. The palace is now a museum
dedicated to musical instruments.

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