Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
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In Petersburg, as in other capitals of great empires, everything breathes the spirit of history and power; it is full of secrets, mysteries, myths, and mysticism. Everything preserves the memory of great and terrible people, their heroic and not-so-heroic deeds, and the stories connected with them.
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The Tear of Socialism. The House of Forgotten Writers
Rubinstein St., 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191025
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths
Jermaine 
The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood — Legends and Myths
Griboedov Canal Embankment, 2B, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Legends of the Mikhailovsky Castle
The House of the Queen of Spades
Malaya Morskaya St., 10-4, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Legends and Monuments of Malaya Sadovaya
Malaya Sadovaya St., 8, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191023
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Chizhik Pyzhik
Fontanka River Embankment, 2, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191187
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Singer House or House of Books
Mysterious Obelisk near Kazan Cathedral
Lions from the Bronze Horseman
Admiralteysky Ave, 12, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Secrets of the Alexander Column
Russian Tristan and Isolde – punishment for the "vile abomination"
A Jew of Peter the Great or the First Bathhouse Scandal of Russia
Anichkov Palace is the oldest surviving building on Nevsky Prospect.
Burned alive
The Empress's Doctor, the First Russian Jewish Academician
Dvortsovaya Square, 2, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
The Best Diplomat of Peter the Great
Bolshaya Morskaya St., 20, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Samoyed King
Dvortsovaya Embankment, 2E, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 191186
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Half-lions-half-dogs-half-frogs — on Petrovskaya Embankment
Petrovskaya Embankment, 6, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197046
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Cathedral Mosque
Kronverksky Ave, 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197046
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Where and how was Barmaley born?
Barmaleeva St., 5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197136
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Sea prison or where they trapped in a bottle
Admiralteysky Canal Embankment, 2t, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190121
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Doctor Pel's Pharmacy
7th Line V.O., 16-18, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 199034
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Moisey Nappelbaum – artist or photographer?
The Death of the Poet – Yesenin
Malaya Morskaya St., 24, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Karl Skavronsky - servant, accidental Russian, and relative of the imperial family
Millionnaya St., 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Amazing Architect Rossi Street
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0
2 Zodchego Rossi Street, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191023
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Willem Mons: How Peter I Executed His Wife’s Lover
X83G+65 Petrogradsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
The Ghost of the Academy of Arts
Universitetskaya Embankment, 17, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 199034
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Were the lands of Petersburg "desolate and empty"?
WCV4+84 Krasnogvardeysky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Kunstkamera - History and Legends
Universitetskaya Embankment, 3, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 199034
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Aircraft carrier on the Neva
Angliyskaya Embankment, 76, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 199034
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Russian Bastille - the legendary "Crosses". History, secrets, and legends
Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0
Arsenalnaya Embankment, 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 195009
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Yelagin Palace
1st Elagin Bridge, 1, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197183
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
The Fateful Café in the History of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tchaikovsky
Osinovetsky Redoubt, Osinovaya Roshcha Fortress
Golitsynskaya St., 1x, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 194362
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
The Summer Garden Grille is one of the wonders of the world.
1 Summer Garden St., Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 191186
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Church of the Holy Trinity (Trinity Church)
The Courtyard of Spirits on Vasilievsky Island
The House of the Emir of Bukhara
Kamennoostrovsky Ave., 44B, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197101
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Hotel "Angleterre" (from the French Angleterre – England)
Malaya Morskaya St., 24, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
An Unusual Lantern Museum in Saint Petersburg
The market at Udelnaya is the most famous flea market in Russia.
Fermskoye Highway, Building 41, Block 8, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197341
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Prostitution in Russia: "On the sending of guilty women and girls, who will not be subject to the death penalty, to the spinning workshop"
Fontanka River Embankment, 166, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190020
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
"Drezdensha" or the First Brothel
Krasnogradsky Lane, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190068
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
“Chubarov Case”: The Loudest Criminal Trial in the History of Leningrad
San-Galli Garden, Ligovsky Ave., 64, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191040
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
All gopniks are originally from Saint Petersburg.
Ligovsky Ave., 10, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191036
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Elephants in Petersburg or How Indian Elephants Improved Russian Roads
Ligovsky Ave., 10/118, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191036
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Pavilion with restrooms in Alexandrovsky Park
Smolny Cathedral (Resurrection Cathedral of All Educational Institutions, Smolny Cathedral, Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Word of All Educational Institutions, Resurrection of Christ Smolny Cathedral)
Stories of Sennaya Square – a place with a tragic and criminal past
Photo: Anton Vaganov, CC BY-SA 4.0
Spasskaya, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Stories of Sennaya Square - Vyazemskaya Lavra
W8F9+X7 Admiralteysky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Stories of Sennaya Square – "Malinnik in Petersburg," or where the criminal slang word "malina" originated.
Sennaya Square, 5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190031
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
Stories of Sennaya Square: The Cholera Riot in Petersburg
The story of how trams used to pass through the house
Ligovsky Ave., 50, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191036
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
KV-85 - the last tank of this series
pr. Stachek, 108A, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 198207
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
The Morozov Treasure in the Leningrad Gostiny Dvor
The house where the history of the Romanov dynasty ended
12 Millionnaya St., Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine 
The Legend of the Bobrinsky Family Treasure or the Treasures of Catherine II
Galernaya St., 60, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000
Petersburg: Stories, Legends, and Myths Jermaine