Peter the Great

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Saint Petersburg

Admiralty building in Saint Petersburg — Founded the Admiralty shipyard, core of the later Admiralty complex.

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Bronze Horseman — The Bronze Horseman monument depicts Peter I.

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Cabin of Peter the Great — First wooden dwelling of Peter on the Petersburg Side; preserved as a museum.

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Kunstkamera

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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).

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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.

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Peter and Paul Cathedral

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Peter and Paul Fortress

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Peter the Great Botanical Garden

Pskov

Peter the Great’s Earthwork Bastions at Pechory — He ordered the monastery surrounded with new earthworks and bastions during the Great Northern War.

Saint Petersburg

Senate Square — Long known as Peter’s Square; focal point of Falconet’s Bronze Horseman equestrian monument to Peter (unveiled 1782).

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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).

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Summer Garden — Founded the Summer Garden as a formal imperial park.

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Summer Palace of Peter I — Summer residence of Peter I in the Summer Garden.

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Здание Двенадцати коллегий — Commissioned the Twelve Collegia for the new government bodies.