This Soviet-era monument marks the scene of Lenin's return to Petrograd in April 1917, when he addressed workers from an armored car and set out the ideas later known as the April Theses. It is one of the city's more direct reminders that the Russian Revolution began as a street-level political drama, not just a museum story.
The monument is a quick stop, but it pairs naturally with the nearby Finland Station area and other revolutionary-era sights in northern St Petersburg.