HIS 112
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe

Peterhof

The Western facade of Peterhof, Peter the Great's summer palace outside of St. Petersburg, built between 1714 and 1725, overlooking the Gulf of Finland. As you can see, Louis XIV, with his Château de Versailles, had no monopoly on baroque elegance.

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