7 mysterious and mystical places of St. Petersburg

In the city of Petra many cultural and historical buildings. But, despite the relatively young age (300 years), St. Petersburg is fraught with unsolved mysteries and mystical stories associated with different places. Today we invite you to walk through seven of them and plunge into legends and legends. Careful, you might get goosebumps!

The Ghost of Peter the Great

The founder of beautiful St. Petersburg bravely sits on his horse in a bronze monument that is located on Senate Square, which today is called Decembrists Square. People call this monument “copper horseman” in honor of Pushkin’s poem.

According to legend, the descendant of Emperor Peter I, Paul in the evening strolled along the embankment of the Neva and, feeling a clot of coolness, saw a ghost of high growth around him. As the ghost passed by, he said, “Poor, poor Paul.” Paul recognized Peter's ghost. And to this day, the inhabitants of the city believe that the sovereign preserves and protects the city from troubles. After all, St. Petersburg survived the Great Patriotic War and remained intact.

Some believe that at night Peter the Great descends from the pedestal and on horseback strolls around the city, patrolling. That is why many are afraid to be at night in the Decembrist Square.

Semity at the Nikolsky Cathedral

A huge number of legends and beliefs are associated with semenity. This place got its name due to the fact that from here you can see the seven bridges of Petrograd: Pikalov, Novo-Nikolsky, Krasnogvardeysky, Staro-Nikolsky, Mogilev, Adjacent and Kashin.

It is believed that in this place you need to make wishes that necessarily come true. But for greater effect, it should be done on July 7 at seven o'clock in the evening. Often on this day, many newlyweds, citizens, tourists, creative people gather here.

Kunstkamera

This is one of the favorite tourist places of St. Petersburg. Previously, the museum was called the “Cabinet of Rarities” and was founded by Peter I in 1714. Here are collected objects of folk life of different peoples, rarities and anatomical deformities.

On the 200th anniversary of the Kunstkamera, the skull of a giant haiduk disappeared. And it is believed that since then, his spirit has settled in the walls of the museum and today wanders, scaring impressionable visitors.

rotunda

The rotunda on Gorokhovaya is considered a mysterious place, because there is an entrance to another dimension. In 1827, the house, which houses a rotunda, which is a grand hall with six columns, was built by order of the merchant Yakovlev. According to legend, the house was built for gatherings of Freemasons or even satanic acts. The grids resemble pentagrams. Some believe that it was in this house that Pierre Bezukhov was accepted as a Mason.

At the entrance to the rotunda there are two inscriptions that contradict each other: “Welcome to the rotunda!” and “Forget hope, everyone who enters here...” Some believe that the rotunda grants wishes, and others that this place likes to visit the devil at midnight.

In the rotunda there is a spiral staircase, if you climb it, closing your eyes, you can circle forever. But the staircase leads to a small door, which is considered the entrance to parallel worlds.

According to legend, one day, a curious boy climbed the steps of the stairs and entered the mysterious door, returned a quarter of an hour later, but aged. Still, if properly placed in the dead end of the rotunda, you can see the shadow of the non-existent seventh column.

It is believed that the spirit of the sage Rasputin wanders nearby. It is said that during his lifetime an underground tunnel was dug from the rotunda into his apartment, and after Rasputin’s death, his spirit began to come here.

Rasputin's apartment

More than a century ago, Rasputin lived in an apartment on Gorokhovaya. But they say that he did not leave these places after his death. Today’s residents of the house say that the spirit of Grigory Efimovich was repeatedly seen in these places. However, if during his lifetime he instilled fear and terror in people, today he is a kind and caring spirit who cares about the health and well-being of the locals.

The spirit of the old man loves New Year and Christmas. He can come to visit, patting men on the back and touching women for different places. It is said that these touches sometimes cure diseases.

Griffin Tower

A beautiful legend about griffins – lions with golden wings and an eagle’s look says that at dusk, griffins fly around the city to make sure that all is well with the inhabitants and return to the places on the tower of griffins at midnight. There are no doors and windows in the tower, and each brick has a serial number that appears and disappears.

It is believed that earlier on the site of the tower was the pharmacy of the famous pharmacist Wilhelm Pel, whose hobby was alchemy. Day and night he tried to derive the formula of happiness, and when he found it, he realized that it could be so dangerous that he would have to hire a guard in the form of magical animals griffins, who to this day guard the tower and the formula and protect the city.

Those who manage to touch the tower in an instant get rid of the problems.

There is a beautiful story about the boy Petya, who lost his dysfunctional parents in 1906 and did not want to go to the orphanage. When he was near the tower, he thought he wanted a family. Miraculously he was taken by a rich gentleman, who had no children with his wife, and adopted a boy.

Smolensk cemetery

Even during the day, this place inspires fear and horror. It's full of legends. And one of the most terrible is the legend of forty priests buried alive in these lands. During the Revolution, forty priests were brought here and lined up in front of a dug grave. They were asked to renounce their faith or to lie in the grave and be buried alive. The priests chose martyrdom. It is said that the groans from the grave were heard for three more days, and the earth moved, and then the divine ray fell on it and everything died down. Since then, the spirits of the priests have walked here, reciting prayers.

It is better to come to the cemetery at night on weekdays. If you go to the left, visitors will find peace and quiet, and if you go to the right, then ghosts.

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