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Rostr Rostralal Letniy The Hermitage contains the former Winter Palace and its State Rooms.
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Marso Day 3
Marsovovo
Kunstk Dvor Dvortsovyytsovyy Pole Pole Four Days in
Kunstkammerammer
Museum Bridge
Museum Bridge The The MORNING
Church on
Hermitage
Hermitage Church on St Petersburg From the Hermitage, cross Dvortsovvy
Spilled Blood
Spilled Blood Bridge to visit Strelka, the historic
Russian
Russian Day 1 quarter of Vasilevskiy Island
Museum
Russkiyiy
Russk Hydrofoil Museum (see pp88–91) famous for the
Hydrofoil
Kitsch
Kitsch stop stop MORNING
Nevskiy
Admiralty Nevskiy Head for the opulent Kunstkammer Museum (see p89)
Admiralty
prospekt
Gardens
Gardens prospekt buildings of the and the Rostral Columns (see p89).
Anichkovov
St Isaac’s’s
Cathedral ofal of
St Isaac Cathedr Anichk Hermitage (see pp14–17) AFTERNOON
Bridge
Gostinyyyy
Cathedralal
Our Lady of Kazan
To P To Peterhofeterhof Cathedr Our Lady of Kazan Gostin Bridge to admire its sublime Lunch at the retro Russkiy Kitsch
(20 k (20 km)m) Dvor Dvor CatherineCatherine
the Gr 18th-century architecture (see p92) before crossing Birzhevoy
the Great’seat’s
Statue and explore its world- Bridge to see the Peter and Paul
Statue
class art collection. Fortress (see pp24–5), where the
tombs of the Romanovs are
AFTERNOON
Fontanka Фонтанка
Fontanka Фонтанка rest of the afternoon, or
Mariinskiy Consider remaining at contained within the Baroque
Mariinskiy
Theatre
Theatre the Hermitage for the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul.
visit the nearby St Isaac’s
Cathedral (see pp28–9) and Day 4
MORNING
Vitebsk the Russian Museum (see Start early for a trip to the stunning
Vitebskiyiy
Station pp22–3). Afterwards, catch an palaces at Tsarskoe Selo (see pp32–
Station
evening performance at the 3). Don’t miss the Amber Room and
TRAIN
TRAIN
Mariinskiy Theatre (see pp20–21). the Great Hall.
AFTERNOON
To T To Tsarskoe Selosarskoe Selo Day 2 Take a taxi to the wonderful palace
(25 k (25 km)m) MORNING and gardens of Pavlovsk (see pp34–5)
Walk along Nevskiy prospekt to the southeast of the city.
(see pp12–13), the main street since
the city was founded. Look out for
Catherine the Great’s statue, Gostinyy
Dvor mall (see p61) and the Cathedral
of Our Lady of Kazan (see p68).
AFTERNOON
The magnificent gardens and
palaces of Peterfof (see pp30–31)
are just a 30-minute hydrofoil ride
from the Hermitage Embankment.
Don’t miss the Grand Cascade, the
Great Palace’s main staircase and Catherine Palace, at Tsarskoe Selo, was
the Throne Room. the summer residence of the tsars.
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