Catherinehof
Sign in to saveEkaterinhof or Catherinehof ( < "Catherine's Court") is a historic island park that began as an 18 century empress's estate in the south-west of St Petersburg, Russia. Its name originated in 1711, when Peter the Great presented the Island and adjacent lands along the eponymous to his wife Catherine (Catherine I of Russia), whose name they memorialize.
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- Building.name
- Catherinehof
- Building.native_name
- Екатеринго́ф
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- rus
- Building.alternate_names
- Ekaterinhof
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- Catherinehof.jpg
- Building.caption
- Etching by Aleksey Zubov, 1716.
- Building.client
- Catherine I of Russia
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Ekaterinhof or Catherinehof ( < "Catherine's Court") is a historic island park that began as an 18 century empress's estate in the south-west of St Petersburg, Russia. Its name originated in 1711, when Peter the Great presented the Island and adjacent lands along the eponymous to his wife Catherine (Catherine I of Russia), whose name they memorialize.
==History== The emperor apparently conceived Catherinehof as the first imperial estate located on the road leading from the capital to his main summer residence, Peterhof.