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Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli began laying the foundations of a new wooden palace for the regent of Ivan VI, Anna Leopoldovna, in the Third Summer Garden on the bank of the River Fontanka (1741). Co...
A rare example of the Baroque style in the residential architecture of St Petersburg, the Stroganov Palace was built by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1752–54) on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and t...
Peter the Great awarded a plot of land for a country residence on the bank of the Anonymous Creek to Count Boris Sheremetev (1712). A timber-frame house was built for his son Count Pyotr Sheremetev (...
Palace-park ensemble created over fifty years on the banks of the River Slavyanka in Pavlovsk. One of the largest landscape parks in Europe. Catherine the Great presented four hundred hectares of land...
The Mikhailovsky Palace is named after its first owner, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the youngest son of Emperor Paul I. The palace was built between 1819 and 1825 for the marriage of the grand duke...
The Menshikov Palace was the residence of Prince Alexander Menshikov, a close friend and ally of Peter the Great. The first stone building in St Petersburg, it stood at the centre of a large urban es...
The Mariinsky Palace was built between 1839 and 1844 by Heinrich Stackenschneider for the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I , Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, who later became president of the Imperi...
Catherine the Great commissioned the Marble Palace for her lover Count Grigory Orlov. Besides heading the artillery department and holding the post of grand master of the ordnance, Count Orlov had be...
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...
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...