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Volkovo

This district, about a 20 min drive from center of city, is the site of Volkovskoye Cemetery (where notable Russians such as Pavlov and Turgenev are buried) as well as home to the Imperial Porcelain Factory.

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Imperial Porcelain Factory

151 Prospekt Obukhovskoy Oborony
(20 min drive from center of city)
Tel: +7 (812) 326-1744
Gallery open daily 10am-6:30pm
This factory once made porcelain exclusively for Russia’s tsarist elite. Its best-known pattern, cobalt net, features intersecting lines of cobalt blue with accents of 22-karat gold. This and other designs are now sold at company stores around the city.

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