Peterhof museam walking tour 🚶🏼‍♂️Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺 4K Russia

Take a walk in the most beautiful place in the world. 00:00 Start 00:25 Grand Palace 00:58 The grand cascade 02:24 The grottoes of the grand cascade 02:47 Voronikhinsky Colonnades 03:27 The Imperial Yachts Museam 04:04 The Hermitage 05:14 The Marly Palace 06:08 Bacchus garden 06:45 Peter I with young Louis XI 07:11 Cascade Golden mountain 07:54 Parger flower beds 08:53 Monpleisir 09:54 Monument to Peter 1 10:19 Сascade Сhess mountain 11:05 Draw area Peterhof (German Peterhof, ""Peter's yard"") is a palace and park ensemble on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. It is located on the territory of the municipality of the city of Peterhof (from 1944 to 1997 - Petrodvorets) in the Petrodvortsovy district of St. Petersburg. The name of the Peterhof road comes from it. Part of it is under the jurisdiction of the Peterhof State Museum-Reserve. Peterhof includes several palace and park ensembles that were formed over two centuries. The Lower Park, the Upper Garden and the English Park are ensembles that developed in the 18th century. Alexandria, Colonistsky Park, Lugovoy Park, Alexandrinsky Park, Sergievka, Private dacha - 19th century ensembles. For the first time, Peterhof was mentioned in 1705 as a ""traveling yard"" and a pier for moving to Kotlin Island. It was one of the many manors (""passing lights"") built along the road from St. Petersburg along the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. In 1712, the construction of a suburban imperial residence for Peter I began. In 1714, the Grand Palace was laid. In 1715, Emperor Peter I decided to create a ceremonial imperial residence that could surpass the famous Versailles. For these purposes, construction began in Strelna. However, for the round-the-clock functioning of the fountains, it was necessary to raise the water to a mark of about 10 meters above sea level, and this would lead to the flooding of the basins of the Strelka and Kikenki rivers, since the surrounding area (south of the Peterhof road) with an area of ​​tens of square kilometers is below this mark. Hydraulic structures capable of solving the problem would have cost Peter the Great too much, but was it worth it when to the west of Strelna there was a landscape ideally created by nature for round-the-clock water supply? The talented engineer and hydraulic engineer B. Minich was able to go against the tsar's will, by engineering calculations to prove the impossibility of arranging ""water extravaganzas"" in Strelna and to transfer the construction to Peterhof. Peterhof, as a palace and park ensemble, was formed during the 18th - early 20th centuries. Peterhof, together with a number of other monuments of St. Petersburg, forms a single complex UNESCO World Heritage Site. 4 and a half million people visit the Peterhof GMZ annually"