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Lower Dacha
Read more...On 27 May 1895, Tsar Nicholas II wrote in his diary: “With joyous and sad feelings, I drove into dear Alexandria and entered our house by the sea. It seems so strange to live here with my wife. Altho...
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Own Dacha
Read more...In 1842, Heinrich Stackenschneider reconstructed the Own Dacha in an exaggerated Neo-Baroque style. Lying to the west of the Lower Park, this villa was intended for the future Tsar Alexander II and h...
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Sergievka
Read more...Sergievka bordered the Own Dacha of Tsar Alexander II and was the estate of his sister Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and her husband, Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg. Heinrich Stackenschneider built...
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Mikhailovka
Read more...Mikhailovka was the suburban residence of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich, the youngest son of Nicholas I, and his wife Grand Duchess Olga Fyodorovna. Between 1858 and 1861, Harald Julius von Bosse bu...
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Znamenka
Read more...In 1835, Nicholas I purchased the estate next to Alexandria, which was called Znamenka, as a present for his wife, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. Harald Julius von Bosse reconstructed the palace in a ...
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Belvedere
Read more...Near Peterhof was an elevation known to the indigenous Finnish population as Pappingongo (“Priest’s Parish”). When Russian settlers moved in, they renamed it Babiy Gon or Babigon. A magnificent view ...
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