Summer Palace of Peter the Great

Peterhof was built by Peter the Great, the exterior is simple, and the interior is magnificent, the main buildings are the Grand Palace, the Summer Garden, the Marli Palace, the Treasure Pavilion, the Alexander Garden, etc....., after the October Revolution, the summer palace was opened as a gallery and a historical museum.

We did not get inside but the building which is a two-storey Dutch-style building is impressive as are the beautiful landscape of the Summer Garden.

A quick morning tour with a group, lots of things to see if you have the time but the opulence of it all shows why they had a revolution, the gardens are nice

Summer palace of the Peter the great shows how simple man he had been. Sad to note that he has pass off at 53 years of age.

It's must visit palace. It's like traveling back in time and the concept of the garden and the impressive engineering of the fountains that doesn't run on electricity...everything is just mindblowing and worth every penny !!!!

The most modest palace you will visit, which is part of its charm. The first of quite a few palaces Peter the Great built in Saint Petersburg was the Summer Palace. Peter the Great lived here with his family for nearly ten years from when it was built in 1714 until he died. Quite a modest palace as compared to the many palaces that were to follow. Best views are from a canal boat tour of which there are many to choose from at an affordable rate.

The Summer Palace of Peter the Great was built between 1710–1714 in the northeast corner of the Summer Garden that sat on an island formed by the Fontanka river, Moyka river, the Swan Canal (also known as Winter Canal) and has the railings of its northern perimeter running along the left bank of the Neva river across from the Cabin of Peter the Great and Peter and Paul Fortress and was the first palace built in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia. When the Summer Palace was completed in 1714, it became the residence of Peter the Great and his second wife Catherine I of Russia and many of their 12 children—with Peter occupying the first floor and Catherine, along with the children, occupying the second one, until Peter’s death in 1725

A must to visit both the summer and winter palaces and gardens in St Petersburg. We came through Moscow but in hindsight flying direct to St Petersburg would have been better as Moscow is very grey.