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in 1704 and restored by Catherine
the Great after flood damage in 1777.
It surrounds Peter’s first Summer
Palace and is adorned with 18th-
and 19th-century sculptures and
fountains (see p73).
Oranienbaum Park
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Oranienbaum • Open 9am–
8pm • www.peterhofmuseum.ru
Gulf of Finland in winter This huge estate is 40 km west of
St Petersburg. It is centred on the
Gulf of Finland
1 Great Palace built in the early 18th
Bordered by Finland, Estonia
century by Prince Menshikov, Peter
and Russia, the Gulf of Finland lies the Great’s friend and confidante.
to the west of St Petersburg. Yelagin Catherine the Great’s extravagant
Island is a great spot from which to Chinese Palace is in the Upper Park,
view it, especially in winter, when the which has canals, bridges and ponds.
Gulf freezes over and resembles an .
arctic wasteland. Great Palace,
Oranienbaum Park
Skate or Ski Across
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Yelagin Island
Krestovsky ostrov • Open 6am–
11pm • Adm weekends only
• www.nyphil.org
During the bitterly cold winter months,
navigate Yelagin Island’s frozen
pathways on ice skates hired from its
Central Park of Culture and Leisure,
or traverse the arctic landscape on a
pair of rented cross-country skis.
Oktyabrskaya Railway
White Tulip Tower
3 6
Museum
Tikhoretskiy prospekt 21
• www.rtc.ru Nab. Obvodnovo Kanala 118/2 • 436
Of particular interest to fans of 3448 • Open 11am–4pm Wed–
Soviet architecture, the Sun • Adm • www.railway-
White Tulip Tower is museum.ru
located in the city’s The many exhibits on
northern suburbs. display at the fascinating,
Constructed in 1968 to outdoor Oktyabrskaya
house one of Russia’s Railway Museum
largest scientific research include a military missile
centres, it’s among the train, loaded with an
country’s most iconic intercontinental missile;
Soviet buildings. armoured trains; trains
equipped with anti-aircraft
Summer Garden
4 guns; numerous Soviet-era
Often overlooked by
locomotives emblazoned
visitors, the lovely Summer with red stars; and a
Garden was personally Statue in the number of 19th-century
planned by Peter the Great Summer Garden steam engines.

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