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The island about which the speech will go in a century before last called St. Petersburg, and at the time of Pyotr – at first Koyvisaari, then already, in Russian, Beryozovy, then Gorodovy (City) island. Now Petersburgers call the island the Petrograd Side.

It is the best of all to begin acquaintance to this island, perhaps, with that place where the St. Petersburg’s first house was built… Go, and we will modestly bow to the first inhabited construction of our Great City which so happily remained … – give, approach Cabin of Peter the Great.

So, the city began to be built up, exactly, from here – from a small one-storey timbered “monarchic lodge”. The house was cut down from pine logs by grenadiers of the Semyonovsky regiment in three days, – by May 26, 1703!

Cabin of Peter the Great – the very first structure of St. Petersburg. So the lodge looks outside, put in brick “case”.

And here it – Cabin of Peter the Great!

Here so all also began! These are then already great “guest workers” of the past, – Domenico Trezzini, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Antonio Rinaldi, Jean Baptiste Valen-Delamot, Etienne Falcone, Giacomo Quarenghi, Vincenzo Brenna, Charlz Cameron, Thomas de Tomon, Luigi Rusca, Karl Rossi, August Montferrand … – it is already created then by their genius all that stunning magnificence which is now called St. Petersburg! And in the beginning there was this lodge…

“Red mansion” as called then a monarchic lodge, was worked in three days, without efforts and troubles: an outer entrance hall in the middle, on each side … – at Russians so did not build two little rooms with wide windows. And that as, – more than hundred years here Swedes managed! – here also semyonovets copied a usual Swedish log hut which in the siikh places only and met. Built quickly and without special inventions!

Already shortly before Peter death the architect Domenico Trezzini built, being afraid of floods, so frequent in these parts, stone protection around a lodge. And in 1731 “the tsar lodge” was covered, wishing to keep it for descendants, wooden construction. In 1784 over this construction established the stone case which accepted in 1844 present outlines in style of Petrovsky baroque. Still later, from 1872 to 1875, also the garden with Peter I’s bust appeared.