- Aerial view of the Grand Menshikov Palace. Oranienbaum (Russian: Ораниенбаум) is a Russian royal residence, located on the Gulf of Finland west of St. Petersburg.
- The Oranienbaum park complex is considered by locals one of the most beautiful parks in the outskirts of Saint Petersburg.
- The main residence of one of the state’s first nobles had to be the symbol of Russia’s triumph in the Great Northern War. The German word Oranienbaum...
- One of the first buildings in the complex was the Grand Palace, which divides Oranienbaum into Upper Park and Lower Garden.
- Oranienbaum was meant to be a part of a grand panorama, meeting all the visitors to the new Russian capital by the sea.
- The park is situated in the town of Lomonosov, which was also called Oranienbaum until 1948. ... It is the only architectural monument in the Rococo style in Russia.
- The Empress turned Oranienbaum into her summer residence and built there a picturesque palace which she called «Private Cottage».
- Set amidst pleasant parkland on the Gulf of Finland and close to The Peterhof , Oranienbaum is an impressive palace with hi-tech visual displays...
- 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.
