Catherinehof
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Ekaterinhof or Catherinehof ( < "Catherine's Court") is a historic island park that began as an 18 century empress's estate in the south-west of St Petersburg, Russia. Its name originated in 1711, when Peter the Great presented the Island and adjacent lands along the eponymous to his wife Catherine (Catherine I of Russia), whose name they memorialize.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Catherinehof
- Building.native_name
- Екатеринго́ф
- Building.native_name_lang
- rus
- Building.alternate_names
- Ekaterinhof
- Building.image
- Catherinehof.jpg
- Building.caption
- Etching by Aleksey Zubov, 1716.
- Building.client
- Catherine I of Russia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- estate
- Country
- Tsardom of Russia
- Located in
- Saint Petersburg
- Image
- Парк Екатерингоф.jpg
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- Catherinehof
- inception
- 1711-00-00
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Ekaterinhof or Catherinehof ( < "Catherine's Court") is a historic island park that began as an 18 century empress's estate in the south-west of St Petersburg, Russia. Its name originated in 1711, when Peter the Great presented the Island and adjacent lands along the eponymous to his wife Catherine (Catherine I of Russia), whose name they memorialize.
==History== The emperor apparently conceived Catherinehof as the first imperial estate located on the road leading from the capital to his main summer residence, Peterhof.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Catherinehof” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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