Views of the Palaces of Tsarskoe Selo I. P. Sautov

In 1710 Peter the Great made a gift to his wife, Empress Catherine, of a small estate twenty-four kilometres (fifteen miles) south of St Petersburg, on land recaptured from Sweden during the wars of 1701-21. The name of the site, which until then had been known by the Finnish name of Saari Mois — meaning high place — was changed to Tsarskoe Selo, or village of the Tsar.  From 1717 to 1723 the architects Johann  Fnedrich Braunstein and Franz Forster built a modest single-storey palace here for the Tsarina, very simple in its decorations, with a terraced formal garden, a kitchen garden, outbuildings — stables and farm buildings — and a menagerie for hunting. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Views of the Palaces of Tsarskoe Selo (I. P. Sautov)