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Encyclopedia Britannica



PETERHOF

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 299 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PETERHOF , a town of Russia, in the government of St
Petersburg
 , 18 m. W. of the
capital
 , on the
south
 
coast
  of the Gulf of Finland. It was founded in 1711 and has grown up round the palace built by Peter the
Great
  in 1720; pop., 11,300. Peterhof is almost exclusively a residential town, but gem-cutting and the manufacture of agricultural implements are carried on. The palace has undergone alterations and additions, e.g. by Catharine II., but retains a distinct Petrine stamp. It is builton a height 50 ft. above the sea, and contains portraits of the Russian imperial family and other pictures. A statue of Peter the
Great
  was set up near the palace in 1883, and one of Francis I. of France in 1896, a
gift
  from the town of
Havre
  to Nicholas II. Peterhof is connected with Oranienbaum on the west and with Stryelna on the
east
  by
series
  of gardens and villas.


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