Politics
Catherine I of Russia
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Lived here
House of Peter the Great
She stayed here with Peter, who named the new Kadriorg estate Catherine’s Valley in her honour.
Commemorated here
Kadriorg Palace
Kadriorg Palace is best known for its Petrine Baroque architecture and housing the Kadriorg Art Museum.
Traces in other cities
- Saint Petersburg
- 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.
- Saint Petersburg
- Peter and Paul Cathedral — Buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral (Wikidata P119).
- Saint Petersburg
- 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.
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