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Summer Palace (Rastrelli)

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ascended the Russian throne in 1741, she commissioned Rastrelli to demolish the palace of her predecessor and build a "Venetian-style" residence for herself.
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in the Russian capital. It was a large and imposing mauve-walled edifice with 160 gilded rooms, adjacent church and a fountain cascade. A Hermitage
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The new Summer Palace, completed in 1744, was the chief residence of
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It was in 1730 that Rastrelli designed the first wooden palace for
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and an opera house were added to the compound in the 1750s.
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Painting of the Summer Palace of Elizaveta Petrovna in 1756.
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Summer Palace of Peter the Great

Baroque
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Tsaritsa's Meadow
Summer Garden
Empress Anna
Elizaveta Petrovna
Empress Elizabeth
pavilion
Catherine the Great
Winter Palace
Emperor Paul
St. Michael's Castle
Summer Palace in Encyclopaedia of St. Petersburg
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Bartolomeo Rastrelli
The Ball-Room at Peterhof
Annenhof
Catherine Palace
Anna's Winter Palace
Rundāle Palace
Mitava Palace
Summer Palace
Grand Peterhof Palace
Winter Kremlin Palace
St. Andrew's Church

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