Summer Palace of Peter the Great
Coordinates: 59°56′50″N 30°20′10″E / 59.9473333333°N 30.3361666667°E
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.
The Summer Palace was first planned in 1710 by Peter the Great and built by the Swiss Italian architect Domenico Trezzini, who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture, as a two-storied stone building with four-sloped roofing.
Compared with other European palaces of the time, the Summer Palace was a very modest building reminiscent of the style of houses for Dutch Burghers from the same period and during its construction was decorated with a frieze of 29 bas-reliefs by the German baroque sculptor and architect Andreas Schlüter that depicting scenes from ancient myths and victorious Russian battles in the Great Northern War and was the first palace built in Saint Petersburg and, also, was the first building in the city to have piped water.
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