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The Botanical Garden on Aptekarsky Island was created as a Medical Garden, in which medicinal herbs were grown for the needs of pharmacies and hospitals. Initially, the inhabitants of the island were exclusively employees of the Medical Office. They worked in the Medical Garden and Pharmaceutical Garden, where at that time the production of medical preparations for the needs of the Russian army was established. Physicians of the 18th century used hare paws and fat as medicines. However, these seemingly not the rarest ingredients had to be bought abroad, so they were very expensive. It was a little strange for the Russian Empire with its extensive forests. In the twenties and thirties of the 18th century special decrees were issued, according to which the inhabitants of the provinces near by the capital were to catch and bring live hares to Saint-Petersburg. The idea was completely failed. It was possible to bring eared creatures to the island but it was extremely difficult to keep hares further on the island. In winter they went across frozen rivers and ran away along city streets.

A beautiful walk

: Reflection in the window of a wonderful Art nouveau style building designed in the begging of XX century on Nevsky Prospect — the Main Street of the city since the middle of XVIII century. You can book a walking tour along Nevsky Prospect, during excursion you will be told in details the history of its buildings and landmarks. However, using a guid-book you can go along this route on your own, having learned a lot of new things.

: View on the Church of Ss. Isidor and Nicholas from the Griboedov Canal. ⠀ ⠀Saint-Petesburg has always been a home for many confessions which temples, churches and cathedrals you can observe in the center and other districts of the city. ⠀ ⠀The Soviet Union, formally created in December 1922, was the first state to have elimination of religion as an ideological objective espoused by the country's ruling political party. ⠀ ⠀In the framework of anti-religious propaganda in the USSR, a campaign was carried out on the mass destruction of religious objects, in particular churches. The main authority was the Russian Orthodox Church. ⠀ ⠀Beginning in the late 1980s, under Mikhail Gorbachev, the new political and social freedoms resulted in many church buildings being returned to the church, to be restored by local parishioners. ⠀ ⠀At present time the city hosts 270 religious communities, 229 religious establishments, including Orthodox, Catholics, Protestant cathedrals and churches, synagogues and mosques, and even Buddhist cathedral.

: view on the Kazansky Bridge crossing Griboyedov Canal along Nevsky Prospect — the Main Avenue in St.Petersburg. ☀️☀️☀️ ⠀The right, odd side of Nevsky Prospect is unofficially called the "shadow side." This side was historically connected both with the aristocracy (therefore, the richest palaces were located here) and with the public life of the city because a library, a theater, Gostiny Dvor (city Mall), the City Duma (Parliament city house) had been built here. ⠀ ⠀The left side (with even house numbers) has long been called the “sunny side”. It is still a favorite promenade of citizens. The sunny side has never been associated with the life of the highest St.Petersburg nobility, but there are a lot of monuments of urban development deserving attention. ⠀ ⠀By the way, in the begging of the XVIII century houses on Nevsky Prospect were made mainly with wood. The buildings on the shadow side were completely destroyed by a fire in 1736. After that, wooden houses had been built no longer on Nevsky Prospect according to the issued special order. And since 1766 only stone houses were built on the avenue.

: view on the Winter bridge crossing the Winter Canal Today Saint-Petersburg still feels every bit an imperial capital city, largely frozen in time, but very open to welcome and entertain you at any time of the year with its many activities, attractions, restaurants, and preserved historic architecture, mostly consisting of baroque and neoclassical buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The granite ledges of embankments, metal arrows of drawbridges, imposing silhouettes of churches, palaces and monuments, as well as museums, theatres and libraries won to the city on the River Neva a worldwide renown.

St.Petersburg was founded by the Russian Tsar Peter I 300 years ago as a fortification. The city got its name after Saint Peter (not after Peter I). Due to it’s not so unique name St. Petersburg has twin cities on every continent except Antarctica.