A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Peterhof was the brainchild and summer palace of Peter the Great. The palace is frequently likened to Versailles, which inspired its design. While the palace is an ...

The Great Cascade with silvery fountain jets ... 4 p.m. Badly damaged during World War II, the Peterhof Grand Palace was reconstructed between the 1960s and the 1980s. Almost every czar and ...

Peterhof Palace was built by Peter the Great during the 18th Century and is often described as the Russian Versailles. It’s situated in Petergof, a town on the edge of St. Petersburg ...

Peterhof is a town 47 kilometres from St ... 11:15 a.m. Monplaisir Palace was Peter the Great’s favorite, with an open-air terrace right on the sea shore. This baroque building houses an ...

The restoration of the Chinese Palace in the Peterhof Museum-Reserve in St. Petersburg ... Now, by the 295th anniversary of the birth of Catherine the Great, we are completing the last works.

Now, Peter the Great had seen Louis XIV’s Versailles Palace in France, and he wanted something at least as grand if not more ...