🖼 Peter the Great's Cabin

Петровская наб., 6

Peter I's wooden hut under a protective stone casing on Petrovskaya Embankment.

The cabin was built by soldier-carpenters in three days, 24 to 26 May 1703 (New Style); its area is about 60 m².
Peter ordered the logs painted to look like red brick and the roof covered with shingles resembling tiles — so the house would look like stone.
There are no stoves in the house: Peter lived in it only in the warm season, from 1703 to 1708.
The first stone casing was put up in 1784 by decree of Catherine II after the flood of 1777; the present one dates from 1844.
From the 1740s Peter's dining room held the Chapel of the Saviour Not Made by Hands — students came here to pray before exams.
The bronze bust of Peter in front of the cabin was installed in 1875.
The museum opened in 1930; today it is a branch of the Russian Museum.

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