Cabin of Peter The Great

The Cabin of Peter the Great is a little wooden house which was the primary St Petersburg "royal residence" of Tsar Peter the Great. The log lodge was developed in three days in May 1703, by officers of the Semyonovskiy Regiment. Around then, the new St Petersburg was depicted as "a pile of towns connected together, similar to some manor in the West Indies". The date of its development is presently considered to check the establishment of the city.

The plan is a blend of an izba, a customary Russian wide open house common of the seventeenth century, and the Tsar's cherished Dutch Baroque, later to advance into the Petrine Baroque. Diminish manufactured comparable domiki somewhere else in Russia - for instance, in Voronezh, and Vologda. The wooden lodge in St Petersburg covers just 60 square meters 650 sq ft and contains three rooms - parlor, room, and study. It has expansive luxurious windows and a high hipped top of wooden tiles.

Inside, the wooden dividers were painted with red oil to take after block, and the rooms came to be known as the "red chambers" krasnyie khoromtsy. There are no flames or stacks, as it was planned to be utilized just in the hotter summer months. It was involved by the Tsar in the vicinity of 1703 and 1708, while Peter directed the development of the new supreme city and the Peter and Paul Fortress.