Visit to Menshikov palace

Occupies the first stone building erected in St. Petersburg (architects G.M. Fontana and I.G. Shedel) – the palace of the first city's general governor A.D. Menshikov. In the building, original fragments of the interiors of the XVIII century have been preserved, among them the famous Dutch tiles. Exhibition of the State Hermitage Museum , dedicated to Russian culture of peter I age, has been open to the public.