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      Strelna: Konstantinovsky Palace

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A seaside residence on the bay — without Peterhof’s crowds.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
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      1. 1
        🖼 Peter I's Travel Palace
        Стрельна
        Closed for restoration; you can't go inside.
        Under restoration — we look from outside. Train from Baltiysky Station to Strelna (~30 min): daily 09:06, 09:50, 10:25; from the station to the palaces is ~20 min on foot. Or buses 200/210 from Avtovo metro to the stop by Konstantinovsky Palace (timetable for October 2026)
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        Peter I's Travel Palace
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter I's Travel Palace
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • It is the earliest surviving building in Strelna — a wooden palace for Peter I's stops on the way to Kronstadt.
        • Peter dreamed of a "Northern Versailles" in Strelna, but water would not flow by gravity to the fountains here, so the residence was moved to Peterhof.
        • Nearby, a secret galley dock 425 m long and 200 m wide was dug.
        • In 1722 Peter gave the palace to his daughter Elizabeth, and in 1749–1750 Rastrelli put a stone foundation under it.
        • After the revolution the palace housed a maternity hospital, and it was only finally handed to Peterhof in 1987.
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      3. 2
        ☕️ Strelna Restaurant
        Санкт-Петербургское ш., 58А, Стрельна
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        Lunch
        🍴 A restaurant and banquet hall serving European, Russian and Caucasian cuisine, with a summer terrace in the courtyard, next to the Konstantinovsky Palace. What to order: pork neck shashlik, khachapuri, charcoal-grilled fish, the "Anna Pavlova" cake.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Konstantinovsky Palace
        Стрельна
        🎟 ticket · interiors only on a scheduled guided tour
        Scheduled guided tours
        The Palace of Congresses
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        Konstantinovsky Palace
        © Uz1awa · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Peter I had his eye on this place as early as 1709, planning a residence that would surpass Versailles.
        • In 1797 Paul I gave the estate to his son Konstantin — hence the palace's name.
        • The historian Vladimir Kurbatov called Strelna the "palace of the sea tsar" as a counterpart to Versailles.
        • In the war only a stone shell was left of the palace; from 1955 the Arctic Naval School worked here for 45 years.
        • The restored palace opened on 30–31 May 2003, and in 2006 and 2013 it hosted the G8 and G20 summits.
        • On 25 July 2015 the draw for the qualifying tournament of the 2018 World Cup was held in the palace.
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      7. 4
        🌳 Konstantinovsky Palace Park
        Стрельна
        Canals all the way to the gulf
        Canals to the bay. Back by buses 200/210 to Avtovo metro along Sankt-Peterburgskoye Shosse, or by train from Strelna to Baltiysky Station (~30 min, in the evening roughly every 20–40 minutes — check times on Yandex Schedules)
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        Konstantinovsky Palace Park
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Konstantinovsky Palace Park
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Work on the park began in 1715 to Peter I's design; plans were drawn up by Rastrelli the elder, Le Blond and Michetti.
        • The Lower Park is a "water garden": canals cross at right angles, and the middle one runs along the palace axis and loops around Peter Island.
        • In 1719–1720 the Strelka river was diverted into a canal, and the old riverbed was turned into fish-breeding ponds.
        • The Port Canal once had locks, a flour mill and a sawmill.
        • Trek Meadow with its riding paths was laid out in the second half of the 19th century on the site of the dried-up American Pond.

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