Saint Petersburg

A family home will become a place of waiting, searches, and its owners' final departure.

The distinction between repairing the building and restoring the architect’s original vision matters here.

Here, the decision of a large public meeting will grow into an armed uprising and an assault on the fortress.

The artist’s house will show how a studio, a home, and a source of income became a single lost property.

Here you will find the reference point that linked sea depths with elevations on land.

The architect’s first major commission split into an unsuccessful bathhouse and the patron’s favorite workrooms.

Here, a family conflict will turn into a state funeral ceremony.

This stop will show how postwar craftsmen restored the lost halls and wrought-iron decoration.

The decorative houses would become the setting for the final major work of the state historiographer.

The final stop will explain how court hierarchy extended from palace rooms to the church service.

The bridge will explain why, for decades, the land route gave way to vessels.

Here, a distant water supply and manual adjustment come together in a precise pattern of hundreds of jets.

The postwar dispute will explain why the historical sequence of rooms was preserved behind the restored facade.

The carved dates make it possible to link a family decision, commercial success, and construction on the site of the wall.

The monument in the water takes the story from a quiet park to the cramped bay of a nighttime naval battle.

Five tables and a service floor will show how much labor courtly seclusion required.

The final stop will explain how a theatre without a permanent auditorium acquired a stage in a former cinema.

Here the route begins its story of how the creator of the fortifications himself ended up in the hands of fortress authorities.

The eastern entrance shows how a victorious façade appeared before the peace treaty.

This stop will connect the inner harbour with Russia's first regular steamship line.

The walk concludes with a state-ordered relocation that managed to turn into warehouses and factories but was never completed.

A private house will show the revolution through a child's rooms, ballet costumes, and the owner's loss of her own home.

Here begins the story of the city as a working shipyard and of the right to complete Pyotr's last ship.

You will learn why the crossing built for an imperial visit was named after a fallen admiral.

The square is needed to see how the demolition of the fortifications changed Vyborg’s commercial geography.

Here, a public examination first brought the fifteen-year-old Lyceum student beyond the school circle.

One day at the palace will connect a prepared court luncheon with a change of power.

The final stop will explain what made it possible to return the mined palace to visitors.

At the end, you will see how family burials and a ban on dividing the estate helped preserve Monrepos Park intact.

You will see the church as a memorial to sailors listing them by name and trace the fate of the lost lists.

The history of this bronze group will connect its German origin with two crossings of the border.

The fate of the statue will explain how the city's right to remember its supposed founder changed.

The crossing is needed for the route both as an engineering structure and as a strategic approach to the imperial residence.

This stop reveals the cost of a collective effort that almost fell apart in the center of the imperial square.

This stop connects the workings of the imperial burial vault with the work of a craftsman who risked climbing to the angel without scaffolding.

You will understand the system that made it possible to begin repairing a ship without waiting for the pumps to finish their lengthy work.

The waterfront panorama links the monument to the city’s founder with the defense of the channels between the forts.

This stop connects the vanished city wall with the tower for which the townspeople found a purpose that paid for itself.

The story of the lost figure will show what restorers used to replace the missing drawings and complete measurements.

The canal makes it possible to read the palace vista as a route for a diplomatic reception.

The Spit explains how the Commercial Port forced architects to reshape the very shoreline.

Here, years of correspondence and fundraising will take on the visible dimensions of the dome and minarets.

Here we will compare the ruins of a church with the clock that townspeople brought back into operation after a fire and a period of disuse.

This stop brings together the vanished center of Pyotr’s capital, a house of former prisoners, and a site of remembrance by name.

The finale will show how an event in a single cell echoed through the streets of Saint Petersburg.

Here you will see how a solitary cell could turn a personal tragedy into a citywide protest.

Bath rooms without a furnace will show how a project for a working hammam turned into a place for rest.

The story of the siege will show the price of written terms after a border fortress falls.

The account will bring the palace fire down to a choice between the residence and the neighboring art collection.