Smolny

You can start your excursion from metro station Pioshchad Lenina and go across the Foundary bridge (Liteiny bridge) to the left bank of the Neva. Liteiny bridge. Robespiera embankment and Shpalernaya Street have gone down in the history of the October armed uprising of 1917.
Another walk round this district could be started at Taurida Garden, which stretches over an area of 30 hectares and Taurida Palace named after Count Grigory Potyomkin. Price of Taurida for his annexation of the Crimea (former name Taurida).
The nearest metro strations: Pioshchad Lenina. Chernyshevskaya. Pioshchad Vosstaniya.