Vasilievsky Island was designed as the center of St. Petersburg.
It is here where the first brick building has been built, the Menshikov Palace, which makes Vasileostrovsky region the oldest in the city.

Peter the Great, fascinated by Holland and its capital, had originally designed parallel streets as canals.
As time would have it, canals had to be dried and covered up, but the streets still came to be known as ‘lines’:
each side of the street is a separate line. We are on the 11th line.
It never fails to amaze, as far as you remember that the sides of the streets were to be embankments.

Visit us and feel a dweller of ‘Vaska’ as the residents had nicknamed it