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      Oranienbaum: Chinese Palace and the Sliding Hill

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 7 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      The quietest of the tsars’ residences — no crowds, with ponds and rococo.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
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      1. 1
        🖼 Grand Menshikov Palace
        Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket
        Menshikov's palace with curved galleries on a high terrace overlooking the gulf and Kronstadt.
        Train from Baltiysky Station to Oranienbaum-1 (~55 min): daily 08:00, 08:25 Lastochka, 09:06, 10:25; from the station it’s 5 minutes on foot to the park. Menshikov Palace above the Lower Garden (timetable for October 2026)
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        Grand Menshikov Palace
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Grand Menshikov Palace
        © Ninaras · CC BY 4.0
        • The palace was built for Prince Menshikov in 1710–1725; in scale the residence then surpassed Peterhof.
        • The palace church was consecrated on 3 September 1727, and five days later Menshikov was arrested and all his property confiscated.
        • From 1743 Oranienbaum was the residence of Grand Duke Pyotr Fyodorovich, the future Peter III.
        • The sea canal that linked the palace with the Gulf of Finland survives to this day.
        • Unlike the other suburbs, Oranienbaum was not ravaged in the war, but the palace was handed over to the museum only in 1995.
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      3. 2
        ☕️ U Ivanycha Café
        Первомайская ул., 3Б, Ломоносов
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        A snack before the park
        🍴 A small home-cooking café with a summer terrace near the exit of Oranienbaum Park. What to order: borscht with salo and Borodino bread, shurpa with lamb, chebureki, apple strudel with ice cream.
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      5. 3
        🌳 Upper Park of Oranienbaum
        Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket · In the cold season entry to the park is free
        An old 18th-century park with a network of paths and ponds, where crowds are rare.
        Ponds and little bridges
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        Upper Park of Oranienbaum
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Upper Park of Oranienbaum
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Upper Park covers 162 ha; it combines formal and landscape layouts.
        • In 1746, behind the Karpin Pond, a “toy” fortress was built with a moat, a palisade and ramparts that had no military purpose.
        • In 1756–1757 the military town of Peterstadt grew up in the park, where Rinaldi built a palace for Pyotr Fyodorovich.
        • In 1873 the park had 30 bridges — 8 stone and 22 wooden.
        • After the war the park was opened to visitors on 9 June 1946.
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      7. 4
        🖼 Chinese Palace
        Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket
        Rinaldi's small palace with chinoiserie interiors — the original decor survived the war undamaged.
        The palace is open only from late May to September — in autumn and winter we look from outside: the blue facade and the park around it
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        Chinese Palace
        © Игорь Гордеев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chinese Palace
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chinese Palace
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The palace was built to a design by Antonio Rinaldi in 1757–1768 for Catherine II — the centre of her Own Dacha.
        • The most famous room is the Glass Bead Cabinet: its twelve panels of the 1760s were embroidered by nine Russian needlewomen.
        • The glass beads for the panels were made at Lomonosov's factory in Ust-Rudits near Oranienbaum.
        • The palace became a museum in 1922 — the only building in Oranienbaum to do so before the war.
        • In 1852–1853 Stackenschneider and Bonstedt added a second storey over the south facade.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion
        Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов
        🎟 ticket
        A white-and-blue Rococo pavilion — all that remains of a giant wooden sledding hill.
        An 18th-century roller coaster. Trains back from Oranienbaum-1 to Baltiysky Station (~55 min) daily 17:00, 17:29, 18:40 Lastochka, 19:00 Lastochka, 19:55, 20:40 Lastochka (timetable for October 2026)
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        Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The hill was built in 1762–1774 to Rinaldi's design; it was long attributed to Rastrelli until this was refuted in the early 20th century.
        • A 532-metre wooden slope with four hills adjoined the 34-metre pavilion, and people rode down it in shaped carriages.
        • Riding stopped in 1801 because of dilapidation, in 1813 the slope's colonnades collapsed, and in 1858–1861 they were dismantled.
        • The Porcelain Cabinet held 40 Meissen groups of 1772–1775 about Catherine II's power over the seas and the victory at Chesme.
        • The pavilion's postwar restoration ran in 1951–1958.

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