Politics
Peter the Great
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Created here · 1704
Admiralty building in Saint Petersburg
Founded the Admiralty shipyard, core of the later Admiralty complex.
Commemorated here
Bronze Horseman
The Bronze Horseman monument depicts Peter I.
Lived here · 1703–1708
Cabin of Peter the Great
First wooden dwelling of Peter on the Petersburg Side; preserved as a museum.
Created here
Kunstkamera
The Kunstkamera is best known for its collection of 'grotesques' and its role as Russia's first public museum.
Lived here
Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg)
Under Peter, Menshikov Palace was a centre of Petersburg court life: he held official diplomatic receptions, assemblies and celebrations there (encspb; Hermitage).
Created here
New Holland Island
Artificial island formed c.1719 by Admiralty/Kryukov canals for timber storage and Russia’s first military port; named New Holland by Peter after Dutch shipyards.
Burial place
Peter and Paul Cathedral
The world's tallest Orthodox bell tower integrated into the main building.
Created here
Peter and Paul Fortress
The original citadel of Saint Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great.
Created here
Peter the Great Botanical Garden
The second oldest botanical garden in Russia, featuring diverse plant collections.
Commemorated here
Senate Square
Long known as Peter’s Square; focal point of Falconet’s Bronze Horseman equestrian monument to Peter (unveiled 1782).
Created here
Spit of the Vasilievsky Island
Peter ordered Trezzini’s regular plan for Vasilievsky Island and from the early 1720s relocated the administrative/cultural centre to the Spit (Twelve Collegia, Kunstkamera).
Created here · 1704
Summer Garden
Founded the Summer Garden as a formal imperial park.
Lived here · 1712–1725
Summer Palace of Peter I
Summer residence of Peter I in the Summer Garden.
Created here · 1722
Здание Двенадцати коллегий
Commissioned the Twelve Collegia for the new government bodies.
Traces in other cities
- Tallinn
- House of Peter the Great — He used the manor house during visits to Tallinn and began assembling the surrounding Kadriorg estate.
- Pskov
- Peter the Great’s Earthwork Bastions at Pechory — He ordered the monastery surrounded with new earthworks and bastions during the Great Northern War.
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