This brick house on the street Priluksky in the early twentieth century became one of the most visited places in Russia. During the first decade of its existence is visited by about two million people. The observatory was intended for the education and cultural activities, and everyone called the People’s House. Children under the age of seventeen were here in full security. In addition to teaching classes and workshops are housed museum, theater, free legal advice, reading room, free...
Metro Museum allows a simple man in the street to look at this type of transport on the other side. It was opened in 2005, on the fiftieth metropolitena.Sperva it was placed near the metro station Avtovo, but as it was quite far from the city center and on a fairly meager the number of exhibits, he decided to move to the street Odoevskogo, which got its own railway line, part of a driver’s cabin and a vending machine tokens from the 60s. You can also get acquainted with the construction...
Museum of Russian Vodka – one of the most unusual museums in our city. Here you will learn many interesting facts about the national drink of history, which previously did not know when and where invented vodka, as well as from which it drank, than you need a snack, from which it is vodka, and when the first monopoly on its production was introduced. The museum is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg near St. Isaac’s Square, in the building where before the revolution...
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:...
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...
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...