REVIEW: "Walks in Peter", Yana Frank

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Today we are going to tell you about an amazing travel guidebook with which you will take a trip around St. Petersburg. And wonderful illustrations by the famous artist Yana Frank will allow you to plunge into the real St. Petersburg atmosphere.

Lifehacker's readers are already familiar with Jana Frank from the reviews we wrote on her book “The Muse and the Beast. How to organize creative work "," The Year of the Left-Finger's Life "and" Muse, Where Are Your Wings?"

I was able to see and listen to Yana Frank live at an IT conference, and today I will be happy to tell you about a wonderful travel guidebook that Yana has created especially for creative people.

Yes, I love him, a huge, proud city, But not for what others …

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St. Isaac's Cathedral, Nevsky Prospect, Peter and Paul Fortress … We all know about the most famous sights of St. Petersburg, which are definitely worth a visit. But we must not forget that St. Petersburg is a city that can never be limited to well-known tourist clichés. In her creation, Yana Frank talks about old and famous St. Petersburg places, and also acquaints readers with less famous, but no less beautiful sights.

Jana Frank's books always amaze with their simple, but at the same time amazing illustrations, so "Walks in Peter" begins with a colorful calendar in which you can mark all important dates for you (holidays and weekends, friends' birthdays, etc.) …

And then, starting with the scheme of the St. Petersburg metro, a real and exciting walk around St. Petersburg starts.

10 things to do in St. Petersburg

1. Come in the white nights season … At this time, hundreds of tourists flock to the city, therefore, when planning your trip to St. Petersburg during the white nights season, remember that prices for hotels and hostels soar 2-3 times.
2. Look at the bridging … For some reason, when it comes to looking at the opening of bridges, everyone immediately goes to the Palace Bridge. But do not forget that in addition to it there are no less majestic Trinity and Annunciation, as well as 19 more drawbridges.:)
3. Take a ride on the Neva and the canals … Come to a city on the Neva and not take a ride along the Neva and the canals? Unforgivable!
4. Throw a coin at Chizhik-fawn … “Chizhik-fawn, where have you been? On the Fontanka … ", and you yourself know the continuation.:) Make a wish and throw a coin at Chizhik. If the coin is held on a stone, then the wish will come true.

5. Climb the colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral … Isaac is one of the tallest buildings in the city. And the view from there is appropriate. I remember that the first time I climbed the cathedral colonnade, it seemed to me that all of St. Petersburg fits in my palm.

   

6. Walk along the Nevskaya prospect. Absolutely everyone loves to walk along Nevsky Prospekt: native Petersburgers, foreign tourists, and Russians who came to St. Petersburg on vacation. Wear comfortable shoes, because you have a long walk - 4.5 kilometers.
7. Enjoy in the confectionery "North" … The cakes that have been legendary since the last century … The chance to try such a miracle cannot be missed.
8. Read the inscriptions on the walls of the "Art Center" (Pushkinskaya, 10) … I remember that as a child I always dreamed of going to Prague and seeing the wall of John Lennon. Could someone tell me then that a real street of John Lennon would appear in St. Petersburg, and even next door was the office of the temple of love, peace and music named after Lennon again? The Art Center attracts not only the fans of The Beatles. There are a bunch of colorful galleries and equally colorful walls. By the way, there is a bookstore at the center where you can find the most unusual postcards.
9. Bring a souvenir from the flea market to Udelnaya … Don't want to bring your friends standard souvenirs? Then take a look at the flea market at Udelnaya, where you will certainly find something interesting.
10. Take a promenade through the Summer Garden … This is a good reason why you should visit North Palmyra in the summer: see the historic fountains and listen to jazz playing on Sundays outside the coffee house.

The most romantic places in St. Petersburg

It's no secret that Peter is the haven of all hopeless romantics. And how could it be otherwise in a city in which there is a Kisses Bridge, kissing on which, according to legend, you will never part with your loved one? And, of course, we must not forget about the roofs of residential buildings on which couples in love constantly live. Vigilant tenants often knock on too ardent lovers, but real romantics, as we know, do not care.

Unusual sights of St. Petersburg

And so we rode along the Neva, climbed the colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral, threw a coin at Chizhik and walked along Nevsky Prospect - in a word, we did everything that a self-respecting tourist should do in St. Petersburg.

It's time to get off the beaten path and go in search of adventure. For example, to unravel the code of happiness on the "Tower of Griffins", to look at the "wandering" monument to Major Kovalev's nose, or to find the "Emerald City", which is hidden in one of the St. Petersburg courtyards.

Speak like a Petersburger

Before heading to the city on the Neva, it would be nice to get acquainted with the local dialect. For example, in St. Petersburg there are no entrances, borders, turtlenecks, buckwheat and cigarette butts. But there are ceremonial, curbs, badlons, buckwheat and khabariki.

Suburbs

Remember not to limit your walks exclusively to Peter. Be sure to go:

• to Vyborg;
• Tsarskoe Selo;
• Peterhof;
• Pavlovsk;
• fortress "Nut";
• Kronstadt;
• Oranienbaum.

In addition to the sights, the guidebook contains useful information on how to get to St. Petersburg, where to stay, where to eat and where to go. But this is not the main part of the notebook. You will write the most important and interesting things yourself.

More than half of the pages are blank. This is your personal space. Here you will describe your adventures, write interesting observations, write down the phone numbers of new friends, and maybe even write essays and poems.

At the end of the notebook, a little treat awaits you - a paper pocket that will securely store your postcards, photos, calendars or a variety of tickets if you like collecting them.

In general, the notebook-guide "Walking in St. Petersburg" is an amazing mini-book that you don't want to let go of your hands, and after reading it there is a desire to instantly rush to the station and buy a ticket to St. Petersburg. It will not be difficult for you to carry a notebook with you in the city on the Neva and record all your observations. After all, we always create the most interesting guidebooks ourselves.;)