Gostilitsy

Gostilitsy (Russian: Гости́лицы) is a village and the administrative center of Gostilitskoye Rural Settlement in Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located several kilometers west of the town of Petergof.

Gostilitsy is notable by an aristocratic estate,[1] which is a part of World Heritage site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.

[3] The area currently west of Saint Petersburg, including Gostilitsy, was transferred to Sweden in 1617, according to the Treaty of Stolbovo, and it was conquered back by Russia in 1703, during the Great Northern War.

After the war, it was first granted to Robert Areskin, the personal doctor of Tsar Peter the Great, and then changed hands several times.

In the middle of the 18th century, it belonged to Alexey Razumovsky, who built in Gostilitsy a palace which was to serve the royal family when they were travelling from Saint Petersburg.

[1] Between August 1941 and January 1944, during World War II, Gostilitsy was at the edge of the Oranienbaum Bridgehead, the territory adjacent to Leningrad and held by the Soviet troops.