St. Petersburg: Walk in Kolomna District Self-Guided Audio Tour

Kolomna district in St. Petersburg is an amazing place.

The district appeared simultaneously with the city, transformed beyond recognition, and turned from a distant working-class suburb into a prestigious historical district.

Thanks to stone embankments and low buildings, an abundance of canals and bridges, this part of the city bears an unspoken name - Little Venice.

Pushkin and Dostoevsky, Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva wrote about Kolomna.

• There are many well-known names hidden in houses here.
• Here, from one bridge, you can see seven more.
• Here the majestic Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Epiphany is adjacent to the Great Choral Synagogue, and a market was located next to the Mariinsky Theater.

Artists and musicians, poets and Decembrists lived in Kolomna area. After the tour, many people from the past will become for you not just a set of names and fragmentary rumors - you will recognize them.

The self-guided audio tour lasts 2,5-3 hours, but I advise you to have time in reserve - you will probably want to wander here a little longer. This place breathes history.