Step Into History
Walk St Petersburg in 1913
AI rebuilds Saint Petersburg street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Tercentenary Petersburg, 1913
This is the city at the height of imperial display and everyday modernity on the eve of the First World War, weeks into the Romanov tercentenary celebrations. The walk moves from the Neva's broad water and quay-lined avenues through theatres, tram-lined Nevsky Prospect, artisan workshops and bohemian cellars to the rostral columns and wide sky over Vasilievsky Spit.
35 scenes — 23 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of St Petersburg as it stood in 1913 (“History of Saint Petersburg”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Kronstadt Harbour
- 2. English Embankment Pier
- 3. Peter and Paul Fortress
- ↳ Cathedral Nave · interior
- 4. Palace Embankment
- ↳ Armorial Hall · interior
- 5. Palace Square
- 6. Admiralty Building
- 7. St Isaac's Square
- ↳ Isaac's Nave · interior
- 8. Bolshaya Morskaya Street
- 9. Fabergé Workshop
- ↳ Goldsmiths' Atelier · interior
- ↳ Design Studio · interior
- 10. Yusupov Palace, Moika
- ↳ Small Theatre · interior
- 11. Church on Blood
- 12. Field of Mars
- 13. Mariinsky Theatre
- ↳ Main Auditorium · interior
- 14. Liteyny Prospekt
- 15. Stray Dog Doorway
- ↳ Cellar Salon · interior
- 16. Griboedov Canal Embankment
- 17. Singer House
- ↳ Bookshop Dome · interior
- 18. Yeliseev Emporium
- ↳ Grand Salon · interior
- 19. Kazan Cathedral
- 20. Anichkov Bridge
- 21. Gostiny Dvor
- ↳ Merchant Arcade · interior
- 22. Moskovsky Station
- ↳ Arrival Hall · interior
- 23. Strelka, Vasilievsky Island