Stay : Literary Saint Petersburg
Alongside the city's big must-see tourist attractions with their tourist shops and slow-moving, stomping groups, another St. Petersburg is possible. More hidden and more secret, it is above all closer to the life of the Petsburgs, who do not go to the Hermitage every day, but prefer museums, stages, walks that are more dear to them, because they evoke the sweet scent of childhood, the carefree Soviet-style youth. The people of St. Petersburg will cite literary museums as their favourite museums. The city has an extremely close relationship with its writers. A small town in the north of the country, the myth of St. Petersburg would probably never have existed without the artists and writers who not only lived there, but also made it not only the setting for their poems, novels or plays, but also the very subject of their writings. St. Petersburg is one of the first cities to be the central subject of literary productions, so much so that its very existence, born of one man's will alone, raised questions. Its culture too, so European in a Russia of the 18th and 19th centuries, still very little open to outside influences. To these writers, who gave the Venice of the North its letters of nobility, the St. Petersburgers devoted an almost religious cult, through the temples that are the literary museums.
Summary of the stay
Best time to go
3 days
€€ - Charm and comfort
Detail of the stay : Literary Saint Petersburg - 3 days
Day 1: Youssoupov Palace and Moïka 12
Steps: Saint-Pétersbourg
Start with the Youssoupov Palace. This remains of a large family of the empire, which owns land in all realms and organized literary evenings renowned in its lounges overlooking the waves of the Moika. Return to the Moika and go to the Pouckine apartment museum, located at 12 on the street. If the full address is the 12 th of the Quai de la rivière, the Petersbourgeois simply say "Moika 12" and everyone knows what we are talking about.
For dinner: The Pouchkin literary coffee, it would have been the place of the last meal of the poet. It is a kitsch, but the establishment is 200 years old.
Evening: there are many literary evenings, which are unfortunately not accessible to people who do not speak Russian. You can, however, go to the Morean Arts Center (beyond the Fontanka), a temple of counter-culture which may have been the writers' retreat.
Day 2: Anna Akhmatova Museum, then in the footsteps of Dostoïesvki
Steps: Saint-Pétersbourg
Anna Akhmatova's apartment museum on the Fontanka is one of the best and has declined the dusty side of the exercise. A great tribute to the one who at the end of his life still laughed like a little girl. For lunch you can go to the Art Nouveau ambiance of Palkin (beyond the Fontanka), for an expensive lunch but reminiscent of the charm of the roaring years. A walk in Dostoïesvki's realistic novels will complement these literary visits. Better than Dostoyevsky has managed to grasp the quintessence of the city that thrives. You will start with the Sennaya Ploshchahd (Place aux Hay), where the fates of the heroes of the novels of Dostoyevsky intersect. Then the Perspective perspective, where Raskolnikov, the hero of Crime and punishment, was murdered. You will also pass near the church of Notre-Dame-de-Vladimir, where the writer went to the end of his life. Then the Littéraire Literary Museum. Not very literary, but dominating the Sennaya Ploshchahd, the Nebo restaurant, gives a good point of view at the end of the day.
MUSÉE DOSTOÏEVSKI
Day 3: Finish music
Steps: Saint-Pétersbourg
Visit of the museum apartment of opera singer Chaliapine, north of the island of Petrogradskaya. Lunch at the restaurant Tchékov, old recipes and theater exit atmosphere. Then stop at the Dom Knigi, on Nevski's perspective, which offers French translations of great Russian novels. With a passage in front of the Pushkin statue on the square of the arts.
For the evening: concert at the large hall of philharmonic, on the square of the arts.
Finally to finish this stay, the vegetarian dishes of the café the Fool, before a last bucolic walk in front of Saint-Nicolas-des-Marins, isolated on its island created by the canals, from where a chimeric steam escapes.
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