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Before working your way up to the Summer Garden and Palace, make a short stop 600m north of Nevskiy prospekt, a short distance along the east side of the Moyka. Here a wide passageway at no. 12 leads to the garden-courtyard of Pushkin's Apartment (Mon & Wed-Sun 10.30am-5pm; closed last Fri of every month; $3), where the poet died after a duel. The most evocative room is Pushkin's study, containing a replica of his library of over 4500 books in fourteen languages. To the east of the apartment stands the multicoloured, onion-domed Church on Spilled Blood (Khram "Spasa na krovi"; Mon-Tues & Thurs-Sun 11am-7pm; $7), begun in 1882 to commemorate Tsar Alexander II, who had been assassinated on the site the previous year. Designed in the style of St Basil's in Moscow, it is one of St Petersburg's most striking landmarks, quite unlike the rest of the city's architecture. Closed for twenty years, the church was fully restored and reopened in 1997. East of the Church on Spilled Blood, the vast Mikhail Palace (Mikhaylovskiy dvorets), houses the Russian Museum. Designed by Rossi, its long facade epitomizes the Neoclassical architecture of Alexander I's reign. Little remains of Rossi's original interior, save the main staircase and the austere "White Room".
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