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Raskolnikov House
Raskolnikov House

Raskolnikov House or the house Joachim -. House on the intersection of Civic Street, 19 Joinery and lane 5 It is in this house, according to researchers of FM. Dostoevsky lived protagonist of the novel “Crime and Punishment” Rodion Raskolnokov. On the front of the house there is a memorable high relief made of bronze and granite, opened in 1999. Famous St. Petersburg academician and writer D.S.Lihachёv D.A.Granin – made by the authors of the text engraved on a high relief:...

Mining Museum
Mining Museum

Mining Museum is located in the same building, founded in 1774. It was the first higher technical institution of its kind in our country, created by order of Catherine II, and it funded. The story itself is a collection of nachianetsya with gift shvedkskogo King-200 minerals and stones from the country, and after a half-century collection consisted of nearly 40 thousand exhibits. Later, it was divided into several rooms: oriktognostichesky, geognostic, training mineralogy, topography,...

Museum of Soviet slot machines

This museum is quite young, happily opened in 2007, is visited by both adults and children. He talks about the history of slot machines, as they are brought from the United States, sent to the defense plants and altered by a Soviet citizen. For those who want to immerse themselves in the story, can simultaneously with the story and play in any of them, they really do not take modern coins. It all depends on the country of assembly, domestic-powered 15-penny coin, Japanese or US-specific...

Apartment Museum PK Kozlov
Apartment Museum PK Kozlov

Apartment Museum of Peter Kuzmich Kozlov, a reflection of his turbulent life, entirely dedicated to research in Central Asia He was a pupil of another of our famous compatriot, Prezhevalskogo;. Kozlov personally took part in six expeditions, thanks to which the world learned of the ‘dead city’ in the Gobi desert and the mounds of the Huns in the north of the museum it was created Mongolii.Sam in 1989 and consists of several rooms, characterizing his work: an office, a room of...

Erotica Museum
Erotica Museum

Erotica Museum in St. Petersburg is one of the biggest, but still young in comparison with their foreign counterparts. It was founded by the chief doctor of the center Igor Prostate Knyazkin in the late 90-ies of the last century and since then the collection has more than 15 thousand exhibits. Some of the things he was donated by famous people-Michael Piatrovskim, Boris Berezovsky and Philip Kirkorov. It presents a variety of works of art, play up the theme of the human body beauty, but...

The Wax Museum
The Wax Museum

In this place you can find the most famous people in the world and a variety of fictional characters. History Wax in Russia began with Peter I-it was he who had brought from Europe a head made of voska.No after his death, this kind of art did not demand and forget about it for almost a century, when there was an exhibition of figures in Peterhof, consisting of 19 prominent people of the last century. It is now a leader in this area is firm Alex show, which has several exhibition areas in our...