COTTAGE PALACE
Duration: 2 hours
«Most tourists are taken to the Great Palace and miss the Cottage, which is hidden in
the trees and reached by an unmade track.
They miss a treasure.»
(Charlotte Zeepvat «Romanov Autumn»).
The Cottage Palace was built in the Park of Alexandria, adjoining the Lower Park of Peterhoff in 1829.
Having been built as a home for the family of Nicholas I, the place gives its visitors a unique chance to have a look at the private life of one of the Russian imperial families. The park is named after Nicholas’s wife, Alexandra.
The house is built in the popular at that time Gothic style by the English architect Adam Menelaws.
