Cabin of Peter the Great – A Temporary Housing for the Future Emperor
The wooden house (domik) of Peter the Great is the first building in St. Petersburg. It was built by soldiers-carpenters in just three days in spring 1703 as a dwelling place for the tsar in summer months in a city which yet did not exist. On the day its construction was completed, the Peter and Paul Fortress was founded; from the windows of his temporary house the emperor could supervise the construction of the fortress and further survey the strategically important objects – the fortress bastions and large expanses of water. Celebrations to mark the founding of the new city were held in the same small house.
The Cabin of Peter the Great is made of pine and is brick-look painted. Defensive fortifications around it were erected 20 years later, and the Cabin was abandoned by 1731, when the first residences were built. After the flood in 1777, a "stone box" of 16 pillars with arches appeared around it, and they have been preserved to our days. The Cabin currently stores the personal belongings of the first Russian Emperor: his uniform, a pipe of boxwood, a cane, a boat and an armchair, which is believed to have been made by him personally, as well as documents of the Petrine era, furniture and utensils.
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