Peterhof

Places like Peterhof (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Versailles allow visitors of all ages to get up close and personal with the art, and do not force them to crane their necks to peer down a tunnel of a roped off area, so somehow, they manage.

Ashley Wren Collins: Frick Collection Doesn't Frickin' Get It 2010

Peterhof is the Versailles of Russia, replete with hundreds of fountains powered naturally from reservoirs.

My Trip to Russia: Palaces and Polyushkes David Cowan 2009

I served as a stable boy at the Peterhof Palace, Ivan lied with a certainty he hoped was convincing.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

Not since his childhood visits to the Peterhof Palace had Ivan been in a grander place.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

Not since his childhood visits to the Peterhof Palace had Ivan been in a grander place.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

Tatiana found their petticoats at the bottom of a trunk theyd brought from the grand Peterhof Palaceinto exile in Siberia, and now to their latest location, this drafty estate the Bolshevik Red Army had named The House of Special Purpose.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

I served as a stable boy at the Peterhof Palace, Ivan lied with a certainty he hoped was convincing.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

I served as a stable boy at the Peterhof Palace, Ivan lied with a certainty he hoped was convincing.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

Not since his childhood visits to the Peterhof Palace had Ivan been in a grander place.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

Tatiana found their petticoats at the bottom of a trunk theyd brought from the grand Peterhof Palaceinto exile in Siberia, and now to their latest location, this drafty estate the Bolshevik Red Army had named The House of Special Purpose.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009