A Literary Tour of St. Petersburg
The residents of St Petersburg see their city on the Neva river as a huge stone book, whose pages were created by great Russian poets and writers. The period of the Great Russian Empire is reflected in the city’s streets, buildings and literature. The streets of St Petersburg recall the lines pronounced by the characters of many works by leading writers and poets of 17th to 20th centuries. The city has many monuments dedicated to writers and literary characters, and buildings marked with plaques dedicated to writers and poets. The Culture Trip takes you on a tour of St Petersburg’s literary past and present, including a collection of the best museums, workplaces and memorials to Russian writers.
1. Pushkin's Apartment-Museum
Museum
Opening hours: Wed-Mon 10.30am-6pm
2. Visit writers' graves in Literatorskie Mostki
Cemetery, Museum
3. Follow in the footsteps of Dostoevsky's protagonists
Building, Memorial
5. Aleksander Blok Museum
Museum
Opening hours: Thu-Mon 11am-6pm, Tue 11am-5pm
6. Visit the house of protagonist of The Queen of Spades
Museum
7. Ulitsa Nekrasova
Building
8. Mayor Kovalev Nose
Mayor Kovalev Nose
Mayor Kovalev’s Nose is probably the most unusual monument in St Petersourg. The sculpture is based on the character of the story Nose by Nikolay Gogol, and was immortalized in October 1995 on the façade of a house in Voznesensky Prospect. According to the story, the nose of Mayor Kovalev had a habit of leaving its owner and strolling around the city by itself. The monument is made from a gray limestone measuring 60 by 35 cm, at the bottom of which is an image of a nose made from pink Ukrainian marble imported directly from the home country of Gogol.
9. Memorial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo
Library, Memorial, Museum, School
Opening hours: Wed-Mon 10.30am-6pm
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