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Two-storey stone palace facing the River Fontanka. Built by Nicola Michetti (1721–23). Reconstructed by Mikhail Zemtsov for Count Ernst Johann von Biron (1726–28). After Biron was arrested and exiled...
The word “Peterhof” is first encountered in an entry in the field journal of Peter the Great for 13 September 1705. That day, on board a ship that he had built with his own hands, the Munker, the tsa...
Gatchina farmstead originally belonged to Peter the Great. He presented it to his sister Natalia. Two-story wooden house built for her on the shores of the White Lake was dismantled during constructio...
On 25 June 1772, Catherine the Great wrote to Voltaire: “I now love to distraction gardens in the English style, the curving lines, the gentle slopes, the ponds in the forms of lakes, the archipelago...
The Catherine Palace was named after the wife of Peter the Great, Catherine I, who had a summer residence at “Saary Muis,” an estate sixteen miles south of St Petersburg. The first “stone chambers of...
Reconstructed from an eighteenth-century estate by Fyodor Demertsov for Princess Anna Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya on the corner of 41 Nevsky Prospekt and 42 River Fontanka Embankment in St Petersburg (...
Peter the Great awarded the land around the Admiralty to naval officers, pilots and shipbuilders. Fyodor Vasilyev built one of the largest and most beautiful palaces in the town after a design by Jea...
Built on the site of the Preobrazhensky Regimental Courtyard near the Anichkov Bridge designed by Mikhail Zemtsov and continued by Grigory Dmitriyev and Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1741–54). A ca...
Built by Giacomo Quarenghi (1792–96) at the request of Catherine the Great as a wedding present for her eldest grandson, the future Tsar Alexander I, who married Princess Luise of Baden (1793). After ...