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  • 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. ...

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  • 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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  • Summer Palace of Elizabeth Petrovna

    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...

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  • Stroganov Palace

    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...

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  • Sheremetev Palace

    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 (...

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  • Pavlovsk

    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...

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  • Mikhailovsky Palace

    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...

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  • Menshikov Palace on Vasilyevsky Island

    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...

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  • Mariinsky Palace

    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...

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  • Marble Palace

    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...

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