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Walking around the city. The tour starts from the threshold, you rent an apartment.
We offer you several options for a walk, which starts right at your doorstep. After all apartments where you live, are in the house, which was once part of the Palace of Grand Duke Vladimir, the son of Emperor Alexander III.You do not have to use public transport, all objects of which we speak are in walking distance from our apartments.
Walk number 1The duration of this walk, without having to visit museums, about 40 minutes. You can expand it at will, and of course, by the way, you will see the building, the street that wants to come, we have noted to you only those places which are not your idea of?? St. Petersburg would be complete.
One hundred meters from the entrance where our apartment complex begins building the State Hermitage Museum, the most 
famous of them building the Winter Palace (architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli, was built in 1754 — 1762, in the style of a magnificent Elizabethan baroque). The grand facade of the palace called the Palace Square, from it got its name. Palace square main square of Saint-Petersburg, and once the whole of the Russian Empire, its ensemble is also General Staff building (the architect Carlo Rossi, was built in 1819 — 1829), in addition to the building housed the General Staff War Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, the two wings of the building were later joined by the Arc de Triomphe to commemorate the victory of Russia in the Patriotic War of 1812. Crowned by an arch sculpture of the goddess of victory Nike in a chariot (sculptors S. Pimenov and Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky, the arch opened in 1828). Combines composition yard area a monument in honor of the victory over Napoleon, Alexander I — The Alexander Column (architect Auguste Montferrand, opened in 1834). Alexander Column is the tallest of the world's monumental columns, the height 47, 5 feet, weight 704 tons. What's interesting — the column stands on a granite base without additional supports, and bindings, only under its own gravity. Crowned pillar sculpture Angel of B. Orel.
On the other side of Palace Square is Admiralty knowledge, the first shipyard of Saint-Petersburg, in this building as located Marine Ministry and the Naval Staff. The first Admiralty was built in 1704 — 1706 years of drawings signed by Peter the Great. Instead, the current building was built by architect AD Zakharov in the years 1806-1823. Golden ship, the crowning spire Admiralty tower is a symbol of St. Petersburg.For the Admiralty is Senate Square, one of the oldest areas of the city got its name after a 1763 on it was placed government agency — the Senate (now in this building is the Russian Constitutional Court).14 December 1825 on the square there was a revolt of the Decembrists.
At Senate Square is a monument to Peter the Great, the sculptor E. Falcone, inaugurated on Aug. 7, 1782. The monument is widely known as the Bronze Horseman, by the same name poem AS Pushkin (in fact it is made of bronze). At the base of the monument Thunder-stone, its transportation to St. Petersburg, from the place of occurrence, before unloading on the Admiralty Embankment took almost a whole year (from November 15, 1769 to September 26, 1770). The monument is one of those places where newly-weds have traditionally come from all over the city, so at any time of year and in any weather you are guaranteed to meet here the bride and groom celebrating this joyous event.
The monument to Peter the Great through Alexander Garden is located Cathedral St. Isaac's Cathedral (official name — the Cathedral of St. Isaac of
Dalmatia). The Cathedral was built by the architect Auguste Montferrand, in 1819 — 1858 years in the late classicist style. Now the cathedral is officially a museum, but on special dates in the cathedral church, all the same place of worship. It is impossible not to note the unique opportunity offered by the cathedral tourist. If you go up to the colonnade can be seen almost the entire city at a glance.St. Isaac's Cathedral is located in a very convenient place for tourists, on the one area we can see several monuments, by the way, it's not uncommon for St. Petersburg, and later we will contact you again and again find ourselves on such streets and squares.So, what is interesting for us to St Isaac's Square in addition to standing in her church. This area is located just Horseguards arena architect Giacomo Quarenghi, built in 1804 — 1807 years for the Horse Guards Regiment, the chief of whom was Emperor Nicholas I, the monument is installed in front of the arena. The monument, which is a work of sculptors of Montferrand and P. Klodt, was opened July 25, 1859 shortly after the death of the emperor.
Opposite St Isaac's Cathedral is a building of the Mariinsky Palace, built by architect AI Shtakenshnejdera (in 1829 — 1807gg) for Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (daughter of Emperor Nicholas I). At the Mariinsky Palace now houses the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.
Here ends our first walk. We hope that our little guide helped you sort out the first few days in our city. And you will once again be sure to make the right choice, settling in our apartment.
