Museum "Grand Menshikov Palace"

About museum

The Grand Menshikov Palace is one of the few surviving monuments of Russian architecture from the Petrine era in Oranienbaum. Its majestic exterior and grand scale inspire admiration. All the estate's owners lived here — from A. D. Menshikov to the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The palace preserves ceremonial and residential interiors of the 18th–19th centuries, as well as works of decorative and applied arts and paintings, a collection of furniture and the owners' personal belongings. Visitors can see the chambers of Peter III's favourite E. Vorontsova, the grand staircase, the dining room, the Crimson Drawing Room, the White Hall, the large study, the bedchamber and the dressing room.