The Summer Palace of Peter the Great is in the north-eastern part of the Summer Garden.

The first summer cottage of Peter the Great was constructed here in 1703. The construction of the existing brick palace began in 1710. The palace was designed by the architect Domenico Trezzini. The principal construction works were completed by 1712. The architects Andreas Schluter, Niccolo Michetti and Mikhail Zemtsov contributed to the decoration of the Summer Palace.

The outside view of this rectangular palace with a four-slope roof and modest decorations of the facades is a typical building of St. Petersburg's first years. The facades are decorated with 29 rectangular relief's showing the allegories of the victory of Russia in the 1700-1721 Northern War (by the sculptor Andreas Schluter).

In 1925, the Summer Palace became a museum, and in 1934, it was opened for visitors. On the first floor, you can see two official rooms for visitors, a study, a bedroom and a turner's workshop of Peter the Great, as well as a dining-room and a kitchen. The rooms of Catherine I are on the second floor. These include the Green Room where pictures, furniture, carpets, glassware and china dishes dating back to the epoch of Peter the Great are exhibited. Although the palace was reconstructed several times, the original decorations of most rooms, including the halls, the oak stairs, the upper and the lower kitchens, have been preserved. Clothes and other personal belonging of Peter the Great and Catherine I can be seen here.

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