- 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.
- One of the first buildings in the complex was the Grand Palace, which divides Oranienbaum into Upper Park and Lower Garden.
- Set amidst pleasant parkland on the Gulf of Finland and close to The Peterhof , Oranienbaum is an impressive palace with hi-tech visual displays...
- The Oranienbaum park complex is considered by locals one of the most beautiful parks in the outskirts of Saint Petersburg.
- The Empress turned Oranienbaum into her summer residence and built there a picturesque palace which she called «Private Cottage».
- 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...
- Built by Rinaldi for Catherine the Great, the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum is one of very few examples of Rococo architecture in Russia.
- In 1743, Oranienbaum became the summer residence of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovitch, the heir of Empress Elizabeth (the future Emperor Peter III).
- 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.
