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If You are really into the politics and political history of Russia, consider taking a day tour dedicated to

the Political History.

In the course of the tour You will visit places, connected with Revolutionary movements, among them:

The State Museum of Political History (available Wed-Mon 10:00-17:00)
One part of the Museum of Political History is housed in Kshesinskaya mansion, the former home of Matilda Kshesinskaya, a famous ballerina and the lover of Nicholas II before his marriage. The mansion was Bolshevik headquarters for a short period in 1917, thus Lenin's office has been recreated. There are many exhibitions here including "The Study of Lenin", "Propaganda Posters" and the "Remarkable "Soviet Epoch: Between Utopia and Reality".

Avrora (available Tue-Thu, Sat-Sun 10:30-16:00)
The battle ship, anchored off the banks of Petrograd, has become somewhat a Soviet shrine. This is because blank shots fired from Avrora are said to have been the trigger for the revolution of 1917. In 1958 it was made into a museum. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, mysterious rumours have been spreading that it is, in fact, a replica. But who knows? Why not find out for Yourself!

After seeing the Sphinxes, created by Shemyakin (a contemporary Russian artist) as a memorial to Stalin's repressions victims, the Smolny (the heart of the Revolution in the past and the seat of the municipal government now), a drive past the KGB-FSB headquarters and the monument to Dzezhinsky, a walk in the Field of Mars, where those, who died on the barricades were buried, You will stop by the Church on the Spilt Blood - another place of a political assassination, You will eventually come to the Winter Palace (part of the Hermitage) - the State Rooms of the former Imperial residence and the room where the Provisional Government was arrested.