Hidden gems - Historical landmarks in Saint Petersburg, Russia not to miss (Updated February, 2024)

Hidden gems: Historical landmarks in Saint Petersburg

Discover the city's hidden treasures—remarkable spots that are relatively undiscovered but offer exceptional experiences. Our selection criteria? A rating of 4.5 or higher with fewer than 150 reviews. Explore these lesser-known yet outstanding places that promise a delightful visit in Saint Petersburg. This list contains 52 places from Historical landmark category.

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Monument to Nicolas the 1st

Historical landmark

5.00 (40 reviews)

Porfirovaya Vaza

Historical landmark

👍👍 If you enter the Summer Garden not from the Neva, but from the embankment. Moika, from the Engineering Castle, you will be greeted right at the entrance by a huge Porphyry Vase. The material for it was pink granite, which is traditionally called p o r f i r o m. The Vase was installed in 1839. This...

5.00 (22 reviews)

Memorial Sign "Blockade Glade"

Historical landmark

👍👍 Невообразимо сложно себе представить, что пережили наши предки! Вечная им память и слава!

5.00 (20 reviews)

Pamyatnik Pogibshim Politekhnikam

Historical landmark

👍👍 A beautiful monument reminding us of the loss and loss of the Second World War. Our common history.

5.00 (13 reviews)

Dokhodnyy Dom

Historical landmark

👍👍 Добротный дом, толстые стены отличная звукоизоляция. Пример очень старого дома эпохи классицизма. Отопление и водопровод еле работают.

5.00 (5 reviews)

Pamyatnik Detyam Voyny

Historical landmark

👍👍 I really liked this monument! I think that the inscription needs to be updated, otherwise it is very difficult to read.

4.90 (28 reviews)

Решетка Летнего Сада

Historical landmark

👍 Subtlety, grace, transparency, completeness, beauty, perfection... If you liked the review, please give me a like. I will be pleased.😊

4.90 (26 reviews)

Atlanty-Varvary

Historical landmark

👍👍 самые колоритные атланты во всём Петербурге. исполнят любое желание, даже ничего тереть не надо!

4.90 (10 reviews)

Dom Gorodskikh Uchrezhdeniy

Historical landmark

👍👍 Welcome to the institution of fairy tales and the office of everyday urban miracles. It’s definitely worth visiting to feel like a hero from Burton’s films or a freshman from Hogwarts.

4.80 (139 reviews)

Dom R. G. Vege

Historical landmark

👍👍 The famous pianist Alexander Ziloti lived in the Vega apartment building on the embankment of the Kryukov Canal until 1919, the geneticist Mikhail Lobashev lived after 1934, and now the most famous resident is Sergei Shnurov. The architect of the building, Ovsyannikov, designed it in the image of a...

4.80 (139 reviews)

Памятник фельдмаршалу, князю М.И. Голенищеву-Кутузову

Historical landmark

4.80 (63 reviews)

Скульптурная композиция «Прометей»

Historical landmark

👍👍 Previously, this monument stood near the Prometheus cinema of the same name on the corner of the street. Bryantsev and others. Enlightenment. When the cinema was demolished, the monument was dismantled. Then it was sent for restoration and only then placed here in this park. The sculpture is intere...

4.80 (56 reviews)

Shuvalovskiy Dvorets

Historical landmark

Majestic riverfront palace art museum housing the world's largest collection of Faberge eggs,

4.80 (55 reviews)

Mansion Franz San Galli

Historical landmark

👍👍 Одно из красивейших зданий в Санкт-Петербурге построено в 1872 году (за три года!) для владельца Чугунолитейного и механического завода Ф. К. Сан–Галли и его семьи. Интерьеры обалденные, но увидеть их можно только в интернете или заказать фотосъемку. Или арендовать весь особняк или отдельные залы...

4.80 (39 reviews)

Osobnyak Grafini N. F. Karlovoy

Historical landmark

4.80 (39 reviews)

Osobnyak Baryatinskikh

Historical landmark

👍👍 In the 1790s-1880s, the house belonged to Fyodor Ivanovich Aprelov, an artillery engineer. Since 1837, the house came into the possession of the Borotyanskys, descendants of Rurik. Ivan Ivanovich Borotyansky is a friend of Lermontov. Commanded the tsarist army in the war with Shamil for the Caucasus...

4.80 (35 reviews)

Pamyatnik Blokadnoy Koshke

Historical landmark

👍👍 There is an entrance from the street. Composers. Monument in the courtyard of the house

4.80 (26 reviews)

Obelisk at the place of execution of the Decembrists

Historical landmark

👍 At this place in 1826, the lives of five participants in the famous December uprising were cut short, when officers imbued with revolutionary ideas tried to change the conservative political system of Russia. The uprising was brutally suppressed, and the five “ringleaders” were sentenced to hanging....

4.80 (21 reviews)

Pamyatnik Vodovozu

Historical landmark

👍👍 Previously, drinking water was diluted in barrels of different colors. The purest, blue, from the Fontanka. A little worse from K. Griboyedov and goyaznaya from Moika. There were rogue water carriers who passed off water from the Moika as clean water from the Fontanka. When they were grabbed by the...

4.80 (19 reviews)

Pamyatnik Sharmanshchiku

Historical landmark

👍 The new sculpture is located on Udelnaya and is liked by passers-by - the organ grinder’s metal nose begins to shine, and coins are added to the musical instrument. Udelnaya was chosen to install the monument because one of the oldest places in the city, the flea market, has been located since the 1...

4.80 (18 reviews)

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Hidden gems: Historical landmarks in Saint Petersburg, Russia