b o o k room is 1 5 by 1 1 ; and the bed-chamber ten feet fquare.
«-J^L^Near this houfe is another four-oared boat, the work of
Peter’s own hands, and which has been erroneouily called
the L ittle Grandjire, an honourable appellation due only to
that juft defcribed.
C H A P . VI.
Palace and gardens -of Sariko-Selo.— Oranienbaum/y//i
lory o f Prince Menzikof.— Fortrefs.— Apartments o f Peter
III.— Palace and Gardens o f Peterhof. — D utch houfe buiU
by Peter the Great.— SchlulTelburgh.— Origin, hijlory, and
defcription o f the fortrefs.
A S, upon our arrival at Peteriburgh, the feafon of the c h a p .
* * year was Far advanced, we had no time or opportunity. VI'
to vifit many places in the neighbourhood of that capital.
We contrived, however, before the approach o f winter, to
make excurfions to Sariko-Selo, to Oranienbaum and Peterhof,
and, laftly, to SchlulTelburgh ; an account of which
places forms the fubjedl o f the prefent chapter.
Sariko-Selo, an imperial palace, about fifteen miles from
Peteriburgh, is the favourite fummer xefidence of the em-
prefs, where ihe lives in a more retired manner than
when ihe is at Peterhof. This palace, which was built by
Elizabeth, is a brick edifice ftuccoed white; is of difpropor-
tionate length, and in a moil heavy ityle of architecture.
The capitals of the outfide pillars, many other exterior ornaments,
and the feries of wooden flatues which fupport the
cornice and adorn the roof, are all gilded, and exhibit a moil
tawdry appearance. The apartments are large and magnificent
: fome are fitted up in the old ilyle of gawdy. profu-
iion; others in a lefs fplendid, but more elegant tafte, by
her prefent majefly. One room is much admired, being
richly incruited with amber, a prefent from the king of
Pruffia.
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