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The Peterhof Palace (Russian: Петерго́ф, romanized: Petergóf, IPA: [pʲɪtʲɪrˈɡof]; [1] an emulation of German "Peterhof", meaning "Peter's Court") [2] is a series of palaces and gardens located in Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia, commissioned by Peter the Great as a direct response to the Palace of Versailles by Louis XIV of France. [3]
Villa of Marc Chagall in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (1949) Mill in Mougins for Raymonde Zehnaker (1951–1952) Château de La Colle Noire in Montauroux for Christian Dior (1955–1957) Fernand Léger Museum in Biot (1957–1960) Villa of Marc Chagall in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (1964–1966) Villa of brewer Heineken in Cap d'Antibes (1965–1966)
Saint Petersburg: 233,345 square metres (2,511,705 sq ft) Used as the official residence and imperial palace of the Emperor of Russia between 1732 and 1917. Briefly served as the seat of the Provisional Government. Currently part of Hermitage Museum. [8] [7] The Winter Palace: 4 Istana Nurul Iman Brunei: Bandar Seri Begawan
The first references to 15 Moika River Embankment in the Central State Historical Archives of Saint Petersburg indicate that a neo-classicism three-story stone house was on the site, when in 1858 the owner, Major-General Seyffarth, commissioned architect A.C. Kolb to reconstruct the existing structure and add an additional floor.
Collection des cartulaires de France. Tome I: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres. Paris: Crapelet. Copy at Google Books. Hazlehurst, F. Hamilton (1980). Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of André Le Nostre. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 9780826512093. Hoog, Simone (1996).
1774—chateau, gothic gate and park in Taytsy near Gatchina, commissioned by Alexander Demidov. 1775—chateau and park pavilions in Suvoritsy near St. Petersburg, commissioned by Pyotr Demidov. 1778—Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg, commissioned by the Holy Synod.
Saint Petersburg, [c] formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, [d] is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, [4] with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area.
Beloselsky Belozersky Palace (Russian: Дворе́ц Белосе́льских-Белозе́рских; also known before the Revolution as the Palace of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, the Sergei Palace, and the Dmitry Palace) is a Neo-Baroque palace at the intersection of the Fontanka River and Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, Russia.