Bolshaya Konyushennaya (Great Stables Street) is a short street between Nevsky Prospekt and Konyushennaya Square, about 600 metres long, yet it holds a whole walk: a doughnut café the entire city knows, a Lutheran cathedral with an organ, a boulevard down the middle of the street, a big early-20th-century department store and a square lined by the former imperial stables. At an easy pace, with a doughnut stop, it takes an hour.
It is a good route for an autumn day when it is too cold or too dark for a long walk: everything is close to the metro, and there is somewhere to warm up on every stretch. Here is what we checked on 19 October 2026: the doughnut café's address, hours and prices on Yandex Maps, the service and concert schedule on the Church of St Mary's website, the opening hours of neighbouring buildings and the status of the Court Stables building. On 21 October the sun sets at 17:33, but this street looks good at dusk too, when the shop windows light up.
🍩 The doughnut café at 25 Bolshaya Konyushennaya
Start at Nevsky Prospekt or Gostiny Dvor metro: walk along Nevsky towards the Admiralty and turn right into Bolshaya Konyushennaya. The doughnut café (pyshechnaya) is on the left at number 25. According to Yandex Maps it is about 470 metres from either station, 6–7 minutes.
The doughnut café at 25 Bolshaya Konyushennaya — Photo: Vaija, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The café is open Monday to Friday 9:00–20:00 and on Saturday and Sunday 10:00–20:00. According to the menu on Yandex Maps, a pyshka (a 51-gram ring doughnut dusted with icing sugar) costs 30 roubles, and urn coffee with condensed milk 60 roubles for 190 ml; the average bill is 200–400 roubles. It is one of the most popular places in the city on Yandex Maps, with more than 66,000 ratings and an average score of 5. Reviews mention queues at weekends, so come on a weekday or at opening time.
The classic order is a few pyshki and a glass of coffee with condensed milk, which is sweet. There is tea on the menu too.
🛍 The boulevard and DLT: five minutes outside
When you come out, take a look at the street itself: a tree-lined boulevard runs down the middle, with traffic on either side. A little further along on the same side, at numbers 21–23, is DLT, a large early-20th-century department store with huge display windows. It is open daily 11:00–22:00, so it is a place to shelter if it starts raining. We cover DLT and the city's other arcades in a separate article; here it is just the façade.
⛪ The Church of St Mary: a Finnish cathedral with an organ
Across the street from DLT, set back from the road at number 8A, stands the Lutheran Church of St Mary with its columns and small dome. It is the cathedral of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria and, historically, St Petersburg's Finnish church: Sunday services are still held in Finnish.
The Church of St Mary on Bolshaya Konyushennaya — Photo: GAlexandrova, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The parish website gives this schedule: on Sundays a service in Finnish at 10:30 and in Russian at 12:30, and on Wednesdays a Eucharist service in Russian at 19:00. On Saturdays at 18:00 there is a "Musical Service", which is a concert. The church has a Baroque pipe organ with 27 stops and almost 1,500 pipes, and according to the parish there are classical concerts every week. Check the programme and entry terms on the parish website; more free concerts around the city are listed in free concerts in St Petersburg.
🐎 Konyushennaya Square and the Court Stables
Bolshaya Konyushennaya ends at Konyushennaya (Stables) Square, about 300 metres, 4 minutes, from the church. The square is dominated by the huge yellow building of the Court Stables Department (Konyushennoe vedomstvo), the former imperial stables along the Moika. You cannot go inside for now: in April 2026 the city's heritage committee (KGIOP) issued a permit to restore the building, which is being prepared as a public and food space. Admire the façades from the square and from the Moika embankment.
The Court Stables in the evening, seen from the Moika — Photo: Azmanova Natalia, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Above the main entrance on the square side is the Church of the Saviour Not Made by Hands, which was moved into the stone stable building as early as 1737. This is where Pushkin's funeral service was held on 1 February 1837 (Old Style). According to Yandex Maps the church is open daily 9:00–19:00; it is a working church, so dress modestly.
