Photo: parks and recreation, castles, fortresses and palaces, other places, Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg

Photo: parks and recreation, castles, fortresses and palaces, other places, Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg

Photo: parks and recreation, castles, fortresses and palaces, other places, Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg

Photo: parks and recreation, castles, fortresses and palaces, other places, Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg

Photo: parks and recreation, castles, fortresses and palaces, other places, Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg

5 photos

Oranienbaum Palace and Park Ensemble

Parks and recreation • Castles, Fortresses and Palaces • Other places

Oranienbaum palace and park ensemble grew out of the homonymous estate of Duke Menshikov on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. Construction of the Grand Menshikov Palace - a two-storey building with the adjacent oval galleries - was completed in 1727. From the central building, a channel was dug to the Gulf for the ships with guests to arrive straight to the palace. The palace was reconstructed several times, but part of its furnishings, as well as the Lower Park, made in front of it, have survived to our days.

Oranienbaum began to actively build up under Catherine II, whose husband, Peter III, abdicated from the throne in her favor just here, in his miniature palace. The empress built here a Dutch House, later called the Chinese Palace, the luxurious interiors of which are currently accessible for viewing, the Katalnaya Gorka (roller coaster) Pavilion, equipped with a platform to slip down in special wheelchairs in winter, and much more. Many buildings in Oranienbaum are intended solely for amusement, such as a Picture House with galleries, library and Kunstkamera. Works of the Western European art of the XVI-XVIII centuries are currently exhibited here. The parks and palaces of Oranienbaum were not damaged during World War II, and this is their value. The Upper Park, which was designed by Rastrelli, has been entirely preserved as it was in the XIX century, with ponds and 30 bridges.

Directions

Have you been here?
Click to rate Oranienbaum:

Nearby

See all

Restaurants

Domik u prichala

Restaurant • Hotel

Restaurant • Patisserie • Banquet room • Hookah bar • Catering

Address

Dvorcoviy prosp 46
198412, Lomonosov

GPS coordinates

59.9156795, 29.7619568

Phone

+7 812 4223753

Official website

peterhofmuseum.ru/objects/oranienbaum

Opening Hours

Now - closed

Mon-Sun 10:00-19:00

Nearby

Restaurant • Banquet room

Dacha Lindstrema

Restaurant • Banquet room • Catering

Restaurant • Banquet room • Hotel • Café

Restaurant • Banquet room • Hotel

Pub • Grill bar • Café

Banquet room • Café

Disco • Karaoke • Banquet room • Café

Castles, Fortresses and Palaces • Other places

Severnaya Veneciya

Restaurant • Hotel • Catering

Konstantinovsky Palace

Architectural Monuments • Parks and recreation • Castles, Fortresses and Palaces

Restaurant • Banquet room • Bar

Restaurant • Café

Piramida-Express

Restaurant • Banquet room • Catering

Domik u prichala

Restaurant • Hotel

Patisserie • Café • Bakery

Restaurant • Banquet room • Hookah bar • Catering

Hookah bar • Café

Restaurant • Bar • Pub

Bolshaya cherepaхa

Restaurant • Bar • Catering

Restaurant • Patisserie • Banquet room • Hookah bar • Catering

Restaurant • Inn

Restaurant • Bar

Restaurant • Hotel • Catering

Bistro • Pizzeria

Krasnyj Kabachok

Restaurant • Banquet room

Peterhof Palace

Architectural Monuments • Museums and Exhibitions • Other places

Restaurant • Banquet room

Grand-kafe "Bridge"

Parks and recreation • Stadiums