The Menshikov Palace, the first large structure built with stone in St. Petersburg, was constructed for Prince Alexander Menshikov, a close associate of Peter the Great, in the early 1700s.

Ammon News - In one of the most important tsarist palaces in Russia, there is a huge, winding staircase that represents an ...

Meanwhile, a two-day ticket to the Main Museum Complex, General Staff Building, Winter Palace of Peter the Great, Menshikov Palace and the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory costs $23.95.

The Menshikov Palace is a Petrine Baroque edifice in Saint Petersburg, situated on Universitetskaya Embankment of the Bolshaya Neva on Vasilyevsky Island. Since 1981, it has served as a public museum, ...

His beloved summer palace was his ideal of everyone’s wish of living without a care – Sans souci. On a small rise covered with vineyard terraces near Potsdam, Friedrich had his Sanssouci summer palace ...

Universitetskaya Embankment is a 1.2 km long embankment on the right bank of the Bolshaya Neva, on Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Starting at the Spit of Vasilievsky Island, it spans ...