Malaya Sadovaya Street
Coordinates: 59°56′6″N 30°20′15.9″E / 59.93500°N 30.337750°E
Malaya Sadovaya Street (Russian: Малая Садовая Улица, meaning "Little Garden Street") is a pedestrian street of cafes, terraces, and fountains in the heart of St. Petersburg. It runs between Italian Street and the Nevsky Prospect. Spanning a single block, at about 175 metres (574 ft) it is known as St. Petersburg's shortest street.
The street's Nevsky Prospect terminus is at Catherine Square, which features the monument to Catherine the Great by the sculptors Mikhail Mikeshin and Matthew Chizhov and the architects Victor Schröter and David Grimm. At the Italian Street terminus is Manege Square, where there is a view of the portico of the great stables designed by Vincenzo Brenna and Karl Rossi.
The street, then called New Lane (Russian: Новым переулком), was first made in the 1740s. A palace belonging to Ivan Shuvalov was built here, completed in 1756, after which the street was called Shuvalov Lane. All the odd side of the street was owned by Shuvalov. His palace was at the corner of Italian Street, after which there was a small fenced garden. From this the street began to be called Little Garden Street from about 1850.
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