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  • Italian Palace

    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...

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  • Gatchina Palace

    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...

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  • Catherine Palace

    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...

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  • Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace

    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 (...

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  • Apraxin Palace

    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...

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  • Anichkov Palace

    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...

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  • Alexander Palace

    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 ...

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