Palace Embankment

Together with the St. Petersburg historian Tatiana Solovyva, we continue to be the most interesting walks in St. Petersburg, started with the Naberezhnye Neva Naberezhnya and Admiralteskaya. This time we will move to the right bank and go through the university embankment, which the author rightly calls the "scientist". After all, it is here that Kunstkamera, the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Arts, the building of the Twelve College and the Palace of Menshikov - a branch of the State Hermitage ... We will read about the latest scientific discoveries relating to the role of Andreyan Zakharov and Nikolai Rumyantsev in creating a unique arrow ensemble of Vasilyevsky Island. Follow the fate of the Anatomical Collection of Frederick Ryuysh, admire Lomonosov"s mosaic, with the eyes of Alexander Griboedov, see the worst Petersburg flood. And we learn more about our compatriots who compiled the glory of Russia and still continue to admire us with their talents and creative energy