13 Activities
Manors of the Leningrad region
Starts from
Saint Petersburg
Transportation
By Car
Guidance
Self-Guided
Activities
13
Duration
2 days
Length
241 mi
Guide details
Starts from
Saint Petersburg
Transportation
By Car
Guidance
Self-Guided
Duration
2 days
Length
241 mi
- History and Culture
- Arts and Creativity
Ksenia Beskova
Traveller
- Repin House.
- V. Nabokov dacha.
- Sculptures on the Gulf of Finland.
- Feodorovskiy town.
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Let us start our short journey in a city that has preserved the atmosphere of the XVII century. After that we will move to I. Schwartz's studio, remembering the melody from the film "The White Sun of the Desert". We will walk around the summer houses of the V. Nabokov family and the estate of the artist I. E. Repin and enjoy the beaches of the Gulf of Finland.
Let's see how the sculptors saw the city beach in the 60s and find ourselves in the bay, where the Soviet submarines were fueled.
Let's see how the sculptors saw the city beach in the 60s and find ourselves in the bay, where the Soviet submarines were fueled.
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Categories
- History and Culture
- Arts and Creativity
Let us start our short journey in a city that has preserved the atmosphere of the XVII century. After that we will move to I. Schwartz's studio, remembering the melody from the film "The White Sun of the Desert". We will walk around the summer houses of the V. Nabokov family and the estate of the artist I. E. Repin and enjoy the beaches of the Gulf of Finland.
Let's see how the sculptors saw the city beach in the 60s and find ourselves in the bay, where the Soviet submarines were fueled.
Let's see how the sculptors saw the city beach in the 60s and find ourselves in the bay, where the Soviet submarines were fueled.
Translated by
Ksenia Beskova
Traveller
- Repin House.
- V. Nabokov dacha.
- Sculptures on the Gulf of Finland.
- Feodorovskiy town.
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Travel itinerary
7 Activities
Day 1
132 mi
Fedorovsky Town and the workshop of I. Schwartz.
We will begin the morning with a journey through time and travel back to the 17th century and the wonderful Fedorovsky Town. Afterwards, we'll remember tunes from Soviet films in the workshop of composer I. Schwartz and go see the estates where Nabokov's family lived. Nabokov's family lived in and was often a guest of the writer himself. We will spend the night in a hotel on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.
6 Activities
Day 2
108 mi
The Gulf of Finland and the House of I.E. Repin
Today we will make several stops on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. We will visit the bay where Soviet submarines used to refuel, and wander among the sculptures of the 60s on the sandy beach in the village of Solnechnoye. We will see the house, which the artist I.E. Repin created with his own hands.