Tourists dropping coins on Cheezhik Peeshik, a little bronze bird on the Fontanka River. Residents of the city know a little couplet (which rhymes in Russian):
Cheezhik Peezhik, where have you been
(Cheezhik Peezhik, gday tee bil)
On the Fontanka drinking vodka.
(Na Fontanka vodka pil.)
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