Exhibition of Peter the Great's Cabin

About exhibition

The wooden house of Peter the Great on the Petrograd side is a unique architectural monument and the oldest building in Saint Petersburg. It is a simple-plan structure: a central entry hall (seni), behind it a small tsar's bedroom, and on the sides a more spacious study and dining room. The area measured by the external perimeter is 65 m². For preservation it has been enclosed in a brick casing. The modern museum exhibition displays items related to the Petrine era, including memorial objects. Among them are a red-cloth uniform coat, an Eastern-style cane, a cast of Peter the Great's hand from an impression made at the Lipetsk cast-iron foundry in 1707, a 'vereyka' boat, and the tsar's chair.