Great Gatchina Palace
The Great Gatchina Palace is a palace in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It was built from 1766 to 1781 by Antonio Rinaldi for Count Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov, who was a favourite of Catherine the Great, in Gatchina, a suburb of the royal capital Saint Petersburg.Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: palace in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Gatchina Palace” and “Гатчинский Дворец”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Octahedral well and Connetable.
Octahedral well
Photo: Necros 8 Ball, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Octahedral well is situated 150 metres east of Great Gatchina Palace.
Connetable
Obelisk
Photo: SadPetzl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connetable is an obelisk and square in Gatchina, Russia, located at the intersection of 25 October Prospect and Krasnoarmeysky Prospect. The author of the project was probably Vincenzo Brenna. Connetable is situated 510 metres southeast of Great Gatchina Palace.
Priory Palace
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Priory Palace is an original palace in the formerly royal town of Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, Northwest Russia, a suburb of Saint Petersburg. It was built in 1799 by the architect Nikolay Lvov on the shore of the Black Lake. Priory Palace is situated 1 km southeast of Great Gatchina Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gatchina and Аэродром.
Gatchina
Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gatchina is the biggest city, and also the center, of Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast. Its population is 92815.
Jäger’s Sloboda (Gatchina)
Suburb
Photo: Tomradm07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jäger’s Sloboda (Gatchina) is a suburb.
Great Gatchina Palace
- Categories: palace, architectural landmark, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.56394° or 59° 33′ 50″ northLongitude
30.10803° or 30° 6′ 29″ eastOpen location code
9GFGH475+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 773640178OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q7461
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Great Gatchina Palace” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gatsjina-paleis”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Qatçina sarayı”
- Bashkir: “Ҙур Гатчина Һарайы”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі Гатчынскі палац”
- Bosnian: “Gatčinjski dvorac”
- Chinese: “加特契納宮”
- Czech: “Gatčinský palác”
- Czech: “Gatčinský zámek”
- Czech: “Palác Gatčina”
- Czech: “Zámek Gatčina”
- Danish: “Gattjina-paladset”
- Danish: “Gattjinapaladset”
- Dutch: “Bolsjoy Gattsjinskiy dvorets”
- Estonian: “Gattšina palee”
- Finnish: “Hatsinan palatsi”
- French: “palais de Gatchina”
- French: “Palais de Gatchina”
- French: “palais de Gattchina”
- Georgian: “გატჩინის სასახლე”
- German: “Gatchina Palast”
- German: “Schloss Gattschina”
- Greek: “Ανάκτορο Γκάτσινα”
- Hebrew: “ארמון גטצ’ינה”
- Hebrew: “טירת גטצ’ינה”
- Irish: “Pálás Gatchina”
- Italian: “Gatčina”
- Japanese: “ガッチナ宮殿”
- Latvian: “Gatčinas pils”
- Macedonian: “Гатчински дворец”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gattsjinapalasset”
- Norwegian: “Gattsjinapalasset”
- Portuguese: “Palácio de Gatchina”
- Romanian: “Palatul Gatcina”
- Russian: “Большой Гатчинский дворец”
- Scots: “Gatchina Pailace”
- Serbian: “Гатчињски дворац”
- Sindhi: “عظيم گاٽشنا محل”
- Sindhi: “گاچنا محل”
- Slovenian: “Gatčinska palača”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Gatchina”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Gátchina”
- Swedish: “Gattjina”
- Swedish: “Gattjinapalatset”
- Tatar: “Зур Гатчина Сарае”
- Turkish: “Gatçina Sarayı”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Гатчинський палац”
- Ukrainian: “Гатчинський палац”
- Uzbek: “Gatchina saroyi”
Notable Places Nearby
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