St. Petersburg: Walk in Jewish Area Self-Guided Audio Tour

Explore Jewish life in St. Petersburg with the private audio tour available on the mobile app (included). St. Petersburg, despite numerous bans and restrictions, has become a city of education, life, and business for many successful and famous Jews. On this walk you will learn the answers to the questions: When did the first Jews appear in St. Petersburg? Who are they? Where did they live, study and what did they do? We will find out, thanks to whom, the non-cash payment system appeared in banks. You will begin the audio tour at the Choral Synagogue - a place of power for the Jewish community of St. Petersburg. Then you will see the Crafts School, the Conservatory, the Mariinsky Theater, and find out how these places are connected with the Jewish life of St. Petersburg. Of course, you will reach the beautiful mansions where the most famous Jews of St. Petersburg lived: the Gunzburgs and the Polyakovs, find out what they did. And will even know what is the role of Jews in the 1917 revolution. Interesting? Then join for a walk!