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Palace of Tsarevna Natalia Alexeyevna

Large three-storey stone house with single-storey side wings built for the favourite sister of Peter the Great – Tsarevna Natalia Alexeyevna (1710–14). One of the first stone constructions in the cit...

Palace of Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich

Built for Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich, son of Peter the Great from his first marriage to Eudoxia Lopukhina (1714). Built rapidly as it was not made of stone, but wood and clay. Alexis celebrated his m...

Palace of Dowager Tsarina Praskovia Saltykova

Built by Mikhail Zemtsov and designed by Georg Johann Mattarnovi (1720–27). After the owner’s death (1723), acquired by the crown and awarded to the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Altered to suit the ...

Palace of Count Burkhard Christoph von Münnich

Domenico Trezzini built “chambers for an aristocrat” on the embankment of Vasilyevsky Island (1718). Acquired by the vice-chancellor Count Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann (1721). Reconstructed an...

Palace of Count Alexei Razumovsky

Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli rebuilt a large wooden palace on the River Moika for Count von Löwenwolde, a favourite of Empress Anna Ioannovna (1730s). Later acquired by Kirill Razumovsky, hetman of...

Palace of Count Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin

Original house on the site belonged to Prince Alexander Menshikov (1710). After he was sent into exile (1727), the house was awarded to Count Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann and rebuilt. After th...

Yelagin Palace

Built by Giacomo Quarenghi for lord chamberlain Ivan Yelagin on Yelagin Island (1780s). A granite landing wharf was built in front of the palace (late 18th century). Inherited by Dowager Empress Maria...

Winter Palace

First Winter Palace Original “winter house” was a small single-storey wooden building created for Peter the Great on the bank of the River Neva (1708). Dismantled (1711) to make way for the Winter Pa...

Tauride Palace

Built by Ivan Starov for Prince Grigory Potemkin (1783–89). Potemkin was awarded the title of “prince of Tauride” for annexing the Crimea and the name was applied to the palace and adjoining garden. ...

Summer Palace

The Summer Palace stands in the north-east corner of the Summer Garden. The first wooden palace was built on the “summer allotment” laid out by Peter the Great on a plot of land between the River Nev...

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