The Menshikov Palace, the first large structure built with stone in St. Petersburg, was constructed for Prince Alexander Menshikov, a close associate of Peter the Great, in the early 1700s.
Meanwhile, a two-day ticket to the Main Museum Complex, General Staff Building, Winter Palace of Peter the Great, Menshikov Palace and the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory costs $23.95.
His beloved summer palace was his ideal of everyone’s wish of living without a care – Sans souci. On a small rise covered with vineyard terraces near Potsdam, Friedrich had his Sanssouci summer palace ...