Peterhof

Peterhof, (originally Piterhof, Dutch: "Peter's Court") is a series of palaces and gardens, laid out on the orders of Tsar Peter the Great, and sometimes called the "Russian Versailles". It is located about 20 km west and 6 km south of St Petersburg, overlooking the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The same name refers to the adjacent town of 82,000 people.

Related topics

• Catherine Palace - The Summer Palace of Catherine the Great
• Hermitage Museum - A complex of buildings adjacent to the Winter Palace
• Pavlovsk, Gatchina and Oranienbaum - other royal residences
• Peter the Great
• Saint Petersburg (Its original German name restored, the city has also been named Petrograd (after Peter the Great) and Leningrad (after Vladimir Lenin)
• Strelna - Peterhof's predecessor as a would-be Russian Versailles
• Winter Palace - The Tsar's residence and court in St. Petersburg