Saint Petersburg

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  • 3 hDuration
  • 6.5 kmDistance
  • 22Stops
  • from €11.99Price
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  • Last unlocked 36 minutes ago

What's included

  • Audio guide for every stop
  • Works offline once downloaded
  • Walking map with the exact order
  • Yours to keep, no subscription
€11.99

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We send the route and a one-tap link into the app. No account, no password needed.

The walk, stop by stop

The first three stops are free to read here — the rest come with the route in the app.

  • State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad

    9 Solyanoy Lane

    State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad
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  • Дом у Цепного моста (III отделение)

    набережная реки Фонтанки, 16

    Дом у Цепного моста (III отделение)
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  • Дом Мижуева (последняя квартира Карамзина)

    набережная реки Фонтанки, 26

    Дом Мижуева (последняя квартира Карамзина)
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What comes after the free stops

Titles and photos, without the stories: those are what you unlock. Nothing here is a spoiler.

  1. Sheremetev Palace

    Former serf actress Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova spent her final years here after secretly marrying Count Nikolai Sheremetev and receiving reluctant recognition as his wife. A grand White Hall was planned for their wedding celebrations, but it was not finished in their lifetime; Praskovia died in the palace only weeks after giving birth.

  2. Музей-квартира Некрасова

  3. Joseph Brodsky's One and a Half Rooms

    Brodsky shared part of this vast communal apartment with his parents from 1955 until Soviet authorities forced him to emigrate in 1972. He returned here after his prosecution and northern exile for alleged social parasitism, and later transformed the awkwardly partitioned home into the autobiographical essay In a Room and a Half.

  4. Transfiguration Cathedral

    An Eastern Orthodox cathedral that has continuously operated as a place of worship.

  5. Annenkirche

    This Lutheran church passed through decades of secular reuse before a catastrophic fire on the night of December 5–6, 2002 gutted its interior shortly after its return to the congregation. Rather than concealing every scar, its revival as a church and cultural venue made the blackened walls part of the experience—a hidden ruin still living inside an eighteenth-century shell.

  6. Доходный дом Дурдина

  7. Baka House

    Behind the ornate street facade lies one of Petersburg's most theatrical courtyard wells: rear wings are linked by two elevated covered galleries, creating an Escher-like vertical maze. Artist Léon Bakst kept a studio in the building during the era of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, connecting this hidden domestic machinery to the glittering world of stage design.

  8. Дом Шванебаха

  9. Египетский дом

  10. Kresty Prison

    A historic prison in Saint Petersburg known for its cross-shaped buildings.

  11. Доходный дом Эдельгауз

  12. Водонапорная башня — музей «Вселенная воды»

+7 stops

How it works

  1. Unlock it here or in the app — one payment, no subscription.
  2. Download it once; the audio and the map work without signal.
  3. Walk at your own pace, start and stop whenever you want.

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  • Varvara

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    Очень интересный и необычный аудиогид! Петербург раскрывается совсем с другой стороны — через истории о людях, цензуре и власти. Особенно понравилось, как знакомые места обретают совершенно новый смысл. Много неожиданных фактов, живой рассказ и ощущение, что погружаешься в другую эпоху. Отличный маршрут для тех, кто уже немного знает город и хочет открыть для себя что-то новое.

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