Cabin of Peter the Great

[1] At that time, the new St. Petersburg was described as "a heap of villages linked together, like some plantation in the West Indies".

It has large ornate windows and a high hipped roof of wooden tiles.

Peter had it encased for its protection within a red brick pavilion in 1723, and ordered that it be preserved for posterity as a memorial to his modesty, and the creation of St. Petersburg ex nihilo.

Catherine the Great ordered the shelter for the cabin to be renovated in 1784, and the protective brick pavilion was reconstructed by Nicholas I in the 1840s.

A prized national monument, the contents were removed, and the Cabin was boarded up and camouflaged during the Second World War.