* Life in communal apartments For many, St. Petersburg is associated with communal apartments. You will visit one of them — here you will find the Soviet way of life among the architecture of apartment buildings. You will look into one of the rooms, the hallway and the kitchen. You will find interesting details of the past: pre-revolutionary newspapers under the wallpaper, brass handles, remnants of stucco Learn how to turn on a gramophone, appreciate a bed that survived the blockade, and an antique sewing machine. The apartment was once a continuation of the acclaimed Kommunalochka bar — and the residents have a lot to tell about it! Courtyards and front doors In our route: • The apartment house of G. G. Mecklenburg-Strelitsky, the front of the furnished rooms "Noble nest" • "Horseradish house" with rich decor in the Art Nouveau style • The blue front door of the Kanshins apartment building, which is decorated with magnificent stucco with gilding • A masterpiece of urban architecture — Gingerbread house with mosaics in the style of an old Russian terem • Unusual courtyards-wells with fancy arches and gates And these are not all the places that we will visit! During the walk, the guide will share interesting facts about the life of St. Petersburg residents in the 19th and 20th centuries.