Walking Tour Saint Petersburg, Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street

At first, Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street was closely built up with low wooden houses, which housed various shops and craft workshops. The street, as well as the surrounding neighborhoods, were inhabited by Europeans who came to Russia: Germans, Swedes, Dutch, Finns. Later, the Commission on the St. Petersburg building judged that the dense wooden building of the street could cause a severe fire. It was decided to replace the wooden houses with one or two