Peterhof
Peterhof or Petergof, known as Petrodvorets from 1944 to 1992, is a municipal town within Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 84,900 residents
- Description: city in Russia
- Also known as: “Petergof”
- Historically known as: “Petrodvorets”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gothic chapel and The Cathedral Of St. The apostles Peter and Paul.
Gothic chapel
Museum
Photo: Cancre, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gothic Chapel in Peterhof is an Orthodox church in the name of Saint Alexander Nevsky situated in the Alexandria Park of Petergof, Russia. It was designed at the request of Nicholas I of Russia by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Gothic Revival style in 1829 and consecrated in July 1834.
The Cathedral Of St. The apostles Peter and Paul
Church
Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located in Petergof, Russia. Emperor Alexander III approved the design for the cathedral in 1893.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barracks of the Caspian Regiment, Peterhof and Stary Petergof.
Barracks of the Caspian Regiment, Peterhof
Neighborhood
Photo: Екатерина Борисова, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Barracks of the Caspian Regiment, Peterhof is a neighborhood.
Stary Petergof
Suburb
Photo: Сергей Шмидт СПБ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stary Petergof is a suburb, which is situated 4 km west of Peterhof.
Timyashkino
Suburb
Photo: SadPetzl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timyashkino is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km west of Peterhof.
Peterhof
- Categories: city, city municipality, and locality
- Location: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.8818° or 59° 52′ 55″ northLongitude
29.912° or 29° 54′ 43″ eastPopulation
84,900Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
9GFFVWJ6+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 83087798OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
510291Wikidata ID
Q178310
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Peterhof” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Peterhof”
- Arabic: “بيتيرهوف”
- Armenian: “Պետերգոֆ”
- Azerbaijani: “Peterhof”
- Bambara: “Peterhof”
- Basque: “Petergof”
- Basque: “Peterhof”
- Basque: “Petrodvorets”
- Bavarian: “Peterhof”
- Belarusian: “Пецяргоф”
- Bulgarian: “Петерхоф”
- Catalan: “Peterhof”
- Cebuano: “Peterhof”
- Cebuano: “Petrodvorets”
- Chinese: “Petergof”
- Chinese: “彼得宫城”
- Chinese: “彼得宮城”
- Church Slavic: “Пєтргофъ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Petergof”
- Czech: “Petěrgof”
- Czech: “Petrodvorec”
- Danish: “Petergof”
- Dutch: “Paleizencomplex in Peterhof”
- Dutch: “Peterhof (stad)”
- Dutch: “Peterhof”
- Dutch: “Petrodvorets”
- Esperanto: “Petergof”
- Esperanto: “Peterhof”
- Estonian: “Peterhof”
- Finnish: “Pietarhovi”
- French: “Peterhof”
- Galician: “Peterhof”
- Georgian: “პეტერგოფი”
- German: “Petergof”
- German: “Peterhof”
- German: “Petrodworez”
- Greek: “Πετεργκόφ”
- Greek: “Πέτερχοφ”
- Hebrew: “פטרגוף”
- Hebrew: “פטרהוף”
- Hungarian: “Peterhof (település)”
- Hungarian: “Peterhof”
- Hungarian: “Petrodvorec (település)”
- Hungarian: “Petrodvorec”
- Ido: “Petergof”
- Ido: “Peterhof”
- Indonesian: “Petergof”
- Italian: “Peterhof”
- Japanese: “ペテルゴフ”
- Karelian: “Pietarhovi”
- Kirghiz: “Петергоф”
- Korean: “페테르고프”
- Latin: “Peterhofium”
- Latin: “Petri Aula”
- Latvian: “Pēterhofa”
- Lithuanian: “Petergofas”
- Lithuanian: “Peterhofas”
- Luxembourgish: “Peterhof”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Petergof”
- Macedonian: “Петергоф”
- Macedonian: “Петерхоф”
- Macedonian: “Петродворец”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Petergof”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peterhof”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peterhof”
- Norwegian: “Petergof”
- Norwegian: “Peterhof”
- Ossetian: “Петергоф”
- Persian: “پترگوف”
- Polish: “Peterhof”
- Portuguese: “Peterhof”
- Romanian: “Petergof”
- Russian: “Петергоф”
- Russian: “Петерго́ф”
- Russian: “Петродворец” (historical)
- Serbian: “Петерхоф”
- Slovenian: “Petergof”
- South Azerbaijani: “پترقوف، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Peterhof”
- Swedish: “Peterhof”
- Tagalog: “Peterhof”
- Talysh: “Petergof”
- Tatar: “Петергоф”
- Tatar: “Петерһоф”
- Turkish: “Petergof”
- Ukrainian: “Петергоф”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pjetergof”
- Uzbek: “Petrodvorets”
- Veps: “Petergof”
- Welsh: “Petergof”
- Western Frisian: “Peterhôf (stêd)”
- Western Frisian: “Peterhôf”
- Wu Chinese: “彼得宫城”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Peterhof”. Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 3.0.