The Peterhof you won’t find in guidebooks

Walks from one hour to a full day, day trips around Saint Petersburg and ready-made 3, 7 and 14-day plans — starting from the Townhouse by the Lighthouse, Diveevskaya St, 1.

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• St Seraphim's Church — The church of the metochion of the Diveyevo Monastery — the street takes its name from it.
• Sobstvennaya Dacha (the Imperial Private Dacha) — An estate where 'no one was admitted without announcement'. Alexander II spent his honeymoon here.
• Sergievka: the Leuchtenberg Palace — A wooded estate park on the cliff above the gulf. Today it is home to biologists.
• Stone Head — A warrior's face carved into a huge boulder. The sculptor is unknown.
• Stary Petergof Station — A station where a trophy carriage served as the ticket office.
• English Park and the palace ruins — The largest and most abandoned park in Peterhof — a former boar hunting preserve.
• Petrodvortsovy Watch Factory «Raketa» — One of the oldest enterprises in Russia: it began as Peter's lapidary factory.
• Marly Palace — Peter's modest 'little cube' between the ponds, where fish were called to feed by a bell.
• Hermitage Pavilion — A dining room for the select few: the table was raised from the kitchen straight up to the guests.
• Monplaisir — Peter's favourite little house right by the water — like a ship ready to set sail.
• Grand Cascade and Samson Fountain — A monument to the victory over Sweden. Works without a single pump.
• Lower Park — Two and a half kilometers along the gulf — the main park of Peterhof.
• Upper Garden — Peter's former vegetable garden. The Neptune Fountain was bought in Nuremberg.
• Playing Card Museum — The only playing card museum in Russia — a rescue in the rain.
• Benois Family Museum — The story of a family that had enough architects and artists for three generations.
• Kolonist Park and Olga Pond — A former hunting swamp that became a pond with two island villas.
• Tsaritsyn Pavilion — A Pompeian villa for the empress who dreamed of Italy.
• Olgin Pavilion — A Neapolitan tower — a gift for daughter Olga.
• Cathedral of Peter and Paul — A church whose site was personally chosen by Alexander III.
• Alexandria Park and the Gothic Chapel — The tsar's "dacha" of Nicholas I. Previously — "Dolgorukov's empty places".
• Farm Palace — A farm for 10 English cows that became a palace.
• Cottage Palace — Nicholas I's cozy Gothic style on the site of Menshikov's ruins.
• Znamenka Estate — An estate of nine owners on the Peterhof Road.
• The start of the fountain water conduit — From here the water flows by gravity to the fountains of the Lower Park.
• Ruins of the Pink Pavilion — A romantic pavilion with a tower on the site of Peter's guardhouse.
• Meadow Park — Reservoir ponds turned into a romantic landscape.
• The Belvedere on Babigon — An ancient temple on a high podium — a viewing point for Nicholas I.
• Church of Tsarina Alexandra — The last building of the Meadow Park, on the top of Babigon.
• Palace of Peter III — A tiny palace in the emperor's toy fortress; he ruled for six months.
• Mikhailovka Dacha — A grand duke's dacha that became a business school campus.
• Peter's Travel Palace in Strelna — The wooden "roadside" palace — the oldest Petrine building in Strelna.
• Konstantinovsky Palace — Peter's failed "Russian Versailles", now the Palace of Congresses.
• Sergiev Primorskaya Hermitage — A monastery on the shore of the gulf — Anna Ioannovna's gift to her confessor.
• Chinese Palace — Authentic Rococo that the war did not touch.
• Roller Coaster Pavilion — The pavilion of the longest "roller coaster" of the 18th century.
• Menshikov Palace — The palace of the "semi-sovereign ruler", more luxurious than Peter's.
• Ust-Ruditsa: Lomonosov's Factory — The place where Lomonosov made colored glass for mosaics.
• Lebyazhye — An old coastal village: beaches, pine trees, and the Sheremetev estate.
• Fort Krasnaya Gorka — A coastal fortress built against the German fleet.
• Koporye Fortress — A medieval fortress on a cliff, recaptured by Alexander Nevsky.
• Ivangorod Fortress — Two fortresses look at each other across a border river.
• Ropsha: Palace and Springs — The water for Peterhof's fountains flows from here. Peter III died here.
• Kronstadt Naval Cathedral — A monument to all sailors who died in service. The main church of the fleet.
• Anchor Square — Perhaps the only cast-iron pavement in Russia.
• Kronstadt Footstock — This is where the height of all the country's mountains and cities is measured from.
• Petrovsky Park — A garden laid out at his own expense by the discoverer of Antarctica.
• Plague Fort — A doughnut-shaped fort in the sea where plague was studied for 20 years.
• Fort Konstantin — A fort you can drive to — part of the ring that was never breached.
• New Holland — A man-made island of ship timber, where logs were dried the Dutch way.
• St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral — Turquoise-and-white sailors' baroque in quiet Kolomna.
• Peter the Great Botanical Garden — Peter's former Apothecary Garden — one of Russia's oldest greenhouses.
• Kamenny Island — An island of mansions and dachas: Petersburg's "old dacha" world.
• Yelagin Palace — Rossi's palace for the dowager empress, tired of traveling to Pavlovsk.
• Oreshek Fortress — A fortress on an island at the source of the Neva, founded in 1323.
• Staraya Ladoga Fortress — A fortress in a village that is older than Novgorod and Kiev as a settlement.
• Oleg's Grave — A burial mound above the Volkhov where, according to legend, Oleg the Prophet lies.
• St Nicholas Monastery in Staraya Ladoga — A monastery on the bank of the Volkhov with its own pier.
• Vyborg Castle — A Swedish castle on an island with St. Olaf's Tower.
• Monrepos Park — Russia's only rocky landscape park.
• Priorat Palace — Russia's only palace built of earth.
• Gatchina Palace — The only castle among St. Petersburg's suburbs — a gift to a favorite for a coup.
• Sylvia Park — A forest park with a poetic name brought from France.

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