Monument to Chizhik-Pyzhik was installed on the Fontanka River near the water. Petersburgers immediately fell in love with the little hero - in the city soon came the belief that if a small coin thrown to the bronze paws of a small bird would be held on a small area where a tiger cub is sitting, the wish will come true. Probably, many would like their desires to be constantly realized ...

Little Chizhik-Pyzhik was abducted to this day seven times already. The monument in a short time became popular among tourists. Among the newlyweds began to exist a different tradition. The groom on the rope takes a glass to the bird, gently clinks glasses with her beak. This should be sure to bring happiness to the family life in the future.

In his house No. 6 on the Fontanka Embankment in 1835, His Highness Prince Peter Georgievich Oldenburgsky, nephew of Emperor Nicholas I, opened the Imperial School of Law . His students and was nicknamed Chizhiki-Pyzhik , because the pupils 'uniforms were green, and the buttonholes and cuffs were yellow, like the feathers of these birds, and they were called the Pyzhikas because of the crocheted hats . True, about the second part of the nickname "Pyzhik", there is an opinion that the pupils' was a demonstrative - pompous and therefore they were called Pyzhikov . In their free time, law students dressed in ordinary clothes and secretly visited a nearby inn in the basement of the house of merchant Nefedov (house No. 14) . Here a poem appeared about the students of jurisprudence .

Address: St. Petersburg, nab. R. Fontanka, Engineering Bridge

Chizhyk-Pyzhik

Monument to Chizhiku-Pyzhik