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Elagin Island
From my house to Elagin Island 20 minutes on foot or 5 minutes by car. Walking here in the summer is wonderful. However, in the spring and autumn it is also good. I don’t know about winter, I have never been here in winter. The St. Petersburg Zam, you know, has little to walk.
The island is small, 2 km long, and only 800 meters wide. A lot of paths, paths, ponds, shady oaks and linden. The island is located in the Neva Delta, between the Big Narok and the Middle Nari. There is coolness from the water, and there are a lot of ponds in the center of the island, so in any heat here is good. You can take a boat, or you can just sit on a bench under dense crowns, or sunbathe on the banks of the river with a view of the neighboring islands. Entrance to Elagin is paid - 50 rubles - on weekends and on holidays, and on weekdays for free.
2. You can get to Elagin in three ways - from Primorsky Prospekt, from the Stone Island or from the Krestovsky Island. I always go here, on this, 3rd Elagin Bridge, from Primorsky Prospekt through a large Neva.
3. Big Nevka.
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5. What this sign calls for, I did not understand. Either its meaning is that you do not need to yawn, dangerous wild proteins can attack. Either we are asked to be careful so that not by accident on the squirrel do not step ...
6. And there is really a lot of protein, fearlessly jump out onto the path and shamelessly begging.
7. The stable case.
8. Elaginoostrovsky Palace. Here lived Maria Fedorovna - the widow of Emperor Paul I.
9. Orangery case. What grew here under the empress, I don’t know, history is silent. Now this building is occupied by the Park Directorate.
10. The kitchen body. Gorgeous, it should be noted, there was a kitchen, a semicircular building in an antique style. A few years ago, the statues on the facade of the case were with broken noses and hands. Now they have been restored, but rather rudely, they are not similar to ancient sculptures today, except from afar.
11. Florentine lions at the entrance to the palace. Lions are cast -iron, painted with white oil paint.
12. View of the stable case from the side of the oil meadow. The meadow is oil, because before the festivities were held here on Shrovetide week.
13. The facade of the Elaginoostrovsky Palace from the middle Nevka. Yesterday there was an event here within the framework of the International Economic Forum, and a lot of tents and tents were placed in front of the palace. Today they are disassembled, the canopies have already been removed, the frames are dismantled.
14. This Hercules stands on a cape, which is far into ponds. On the grass, a pedestal of grandmothers in neglige tanned at the pedestal.
15. View of the Krestovsky Island. Cottages on the shores of the Middle Nari are a village for judges of the Constitutional Court. I'm not sure that the judges really live there. I have never seen there on the shore of some living movement, only securities from time to time go to the water to smoke and stare on young swimsuits ..
16. View of Krestovsky.
17. Yacht Club on the Middle Neva.
18. And this is almost the end of Elagin island. On the horizon on the left is the dome of the water park, it stands on the shores of the Gulf of Finland.