Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Magnificence of Peterhof Palace

The magnificence of Peterhof, Peter the Great's summer imperial palace on the Gulf of Finland on Baltic Sea, is somewhat reminiscent of Versailles near Paris. Peter the Great visited Versailles in 1717 and he returned to st Petersburg with many ideas...