Location: Vasilyevsky Island
Top Things to do in Vasilyevsky Island
Top Restaurants in St. Petersburg
Things to do in St. Petersburg, Northwestern District: The Best Points of Interest & Landmarks
The second largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg is the country’s cultural heart. View splendid architectural gems like the Winter Palace and the Kazan Cathedral, and give yourself plenty of time to browse the world-renowned art collection of the Hermitage. Sprawling across the Neva River delta, St. Petersburg offers enough art, nightlife, fine dining and cultural destinations for many repeat visits.
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1. St. Petersburg House of the Optina Pustyn Friary
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5.0 based on 43 reviews
2. Tram Bresh
3. Tuman Art Gallery
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5.0 based on 5 reviews
Tuman Zhumabaev is a famous St. Petersburg artist, painter, portrait painter. Born in Kyrgyzstan, in the village of Karasu in 1962. In 1981 he entered the V.A. Serov (now named after N.K. Roerich). In 1991 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin, where he studied in the studio of Professor Yu.M. Neprintsev. Member of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg since 2002. Member of the Society of Portraitists of America since 2006. Laureate of the international prize "Poppy Prairie", Paris. Now lives and works in St. Petersburg, travels a lot, conducts active exhibition activities in Russia and abroad - paintings are exhibited in Poland, Hungary, Austria, Vietnam, Iran, France, China.
4. Chapel of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg
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5.0 based on 454 reviews
Reviewed By Marie-na4515
The Church if canonized St. Xenia is superb. The cemetery visitors and people with prayer that come here makes this a great place to visit.
5. Monument to Vasiliy Korchmin
6. House of Tanya Savicheva
7. Imperial Clinical Obstetric and Gynecological Institute
8. Egyptian Sphinxes
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4.5 based on 165 reviews
A St. Petersburg signature, the two Egyptian sphinxes of Amenhotep III that grace the front of the Academy of Fine Arts Museum date to the 15th century B.C.
9. Memorial Sign Strelka Of Vasilievskiy Island
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4.5 based on 653 reviews
This spit of land is located on the edge of Vasilievsky Island overlooking the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Winter Palace.
Reviewed By 490theos - Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
lovely perspective of the Neva and the embankments of central St Petersburg. Romantic when it is visited by newly weds having their photos taken
10. Chapel in the Name of the Holy Great Prince Vladimir of Kiev
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