Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Saint Petersburg, Russia

The State Dramatic Theatre on Liteyny Avenue is a theatre at 51 Liteyny Avenue, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1909. Konstantin Tverskoy worked at the Liteinyi Theatre as director, Savely Schleifer (1881–1943) as designer. The Narodnaia Komedia took up Meyerhold's experiments from the Liteyni and Hermitage Theatre. The theatre produced many unusual offerings. In 1909 the Japanese play Terakoya was presented. Boris Romanov (1891-1957) choreographed the cabaret The Goatlegged, and Arkady Averchenko contributed sketches and vaudevilles.

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The Church of Simeon and Anna is a parish Orthodox church in St. Petersburg, on the corner of Belinsky and Mokhovaya streets, an architectural monument, one of the oldest churches in the city. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Former Chapter Church of the Order of St. Anne.

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Circus Ciniselli was the first brick-built circus in Russia; it is situated beside the Fontanka in Saint Petersburg.

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The Monument to Peter I is a bronze equestrian monument of Peter the Great in front of the St. Michael's Castle in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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"Chizhik-Pyzhik" is a miniature animalistic sculpture in St. Petersburg. It was erected on November 19, 1994 on the Fontanka River, near the Mikhailovsky (Engineers) Castle next to the 1st Engineers' Bridge, opposite the house No 12/1. The height of the figure is 11 cm, the weight is about 5 kg.

Wikipedia: Памятник Чижику-Пыжику (RU)

A porphyry vase is a work of stone-carving art installed in the Summer Garden in St. Petersburg. It is located at the entrance to the garden from the Moika River embankment on the bank of the Karpiev Pond.

Wikipedia: Порфировая ваза (RU)

The Russian Museum of Ethnography is a museum in St. Petersburg that houses a collection of about 500,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

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The monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by sculptor M. K. Anikushin and architect V. A. Petrov was erected on June 19, 1957 in Leningrad, on Arts Square in front of the building of the State Russian Museum. The opening of the monument was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Leningrad.

Wikipedia: Памятник А. С. Пушкину (Санкт-Петербург, площадь Искусств) (RU)

The Museum of the Apartment of I. I. Brodskoy is one of the St. Petersburg branches of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. The museum was opened in 1949 in the Golenishchev-Kutuzov house on Arts Square, where the artist Isaac Brodsky lived for the last 15 years.

Wikipedia: Музей-квартира И. И. Бродского (RU)

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is a Russian Orthodox church in Saint Petersburg, Russia which currently functions as a secular museum and church at the same time. The structure was constructed between 1883 and 1907. It is one of Saint Petersburg's major attractions.

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The St. Petersburg State Academic Capella, is the oldest active Russian professional musical institution with a history dating back to 1479. It is based in the city of Saint Petersburg. It has had various names over the years, including "St. Peterburg Court Chapel" and the "Glinka State Choir of St. Petersburg".

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary is an Evangelical Lutheran church located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built in 1805 and refurbished in 2002. Its address is: Bolshaya Konyushennnaya Ulitsa 8A, off Nevsky Prospekt. It is usually called the Finnish church and is one of the oldest and largest Protestant churches in Russia.

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The Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a Lutheran church in the center of St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt. Divine services are held regularly on Sundays from 10:30 in German and Russian. The rector of the parish, Pastor Michael Schwarzkopf, is also the head of the North-West Probate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the European Part of Russia. Also in the church building is the office of the Archbishop of the Union of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

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Paul, also named Saul of Tarsus, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, and he also founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD.

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Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four New Testament gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles. Catholic tradition accredits Peter as the first bishop of Rome‍—‌or pope‍—‌and also as the first bishop of Antioch.

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The monument to Gogol in St. Petersburg is located on Malaya Konyushennaya Street, is one of the sights of the city.

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Singer House, also widely known as the House of the Book, is a historic building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the Griboyedov Canal, directly opposite the Kazan Cathedral. It is recognized as a historical landmark and has official status as an object of Russian cultural heritage.

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Monuments to Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly in St. Petersburg are installed on Kazanskaya Square near Nevsky Prospekt in the Central District of the city.

Wikipedia: Памятники Кутузову и Барклаю-де-Толли (Санкт-Петербург) (RU)

The Petrovskaya Aquatoria is a historical model museum in St. Petersburg, made on a scale of 1:87 on an area of more than 500 sq. m. The total area of the museum is 1100 sq. m. A feature of the museum is the recreation of the water area of the Neva and the Gulf of Finland using real water, as well as the use of its own patented technical developments. The museum is located at the intersection of Malaya Morskaya Street and Kirpichny Lane, in the building of the Admiral shopping mall.

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The House of the Lady of Pikov is a mansion in St. Petersburg on Malaya Morskaya Street, 10, where Princess N. P. Golitsyna, who became the prototype of the countess in the story by A. S. Pushkin "The Queen of Spades", lived.

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The history of the St. Petersburg tram dates back to September 29, 1907, and the history of its predecessor, the horse-drawn tram, dates back to 1860.

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The monument to Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov in St. Petersburg was installed in the Alexander Garden in the Admiralteysky district of the city.

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The monument to Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky in St. Petersburg is located in the Alexander Garden in the Admiralty district of the city. The monument is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

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The Farnese Hercules is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; he was an Athenian but he may have worked in Rome. Like many other Ancient Roman sculptures it is a copy or version of a much older Greek original that was well known, in this case a bronze by Lysippos that would have been made in the fourth century BC. This original survived for over 1500 years until it was melted down by Crusaders in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople. The enlarged copy was made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, where the statue was recovered in 1546, and is now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. The heroically-scaled Hercules is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity, and has fixed the image of the mythic hero in the European imagination.

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The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications is a museum of science and technology founded in 1872. It is located in the historic centre of Saint Petersburg, Russia, near Saint Isaac's Square.

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In many countries, kilometre zero or similar terms in other languages denote a particular location from which distances are traditionally measured and some use this as their official country location or coordinates for faster search at space satellites, this is also used for measuring distances between different countries around the world. Historically, they were markers where drivers could set their odometers to follow the directions in early roaming guide books.

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Quay with Sphinxes is a quay at the Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts. It is remarkable for the two ancient sphinxes that were brought from Egypt to Russia at the height of Egyptomania in 1832. The quay was completed in 1834.

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S-189 is a Project 613B diesel submarine of the Soviet Navy.

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