Politics
Catherine I of Russia
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Lived here
Cabin of Peter the Great
While the new capital was being built she lived with Peter in the modest three-room log cabin (Domik Petra I), the first royal residence in the city.
Burial place
Peter and Paul Cathedral
Buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral (Wikidata P119).
Lived here
Winter Palace
As empress-consort and then reigning empress (1725–27) her Petersburg court was centred on the successive Winter Palace residences on the Hermitage embankment site.
Traces in other cities
- Tallinn
- House of Peter the Great — She stayed here with Peter, who named the new Kadriorg estate Catherine’s Valley in her honour.
- Tallinn
- Kadriorg Palace
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