Introduction to the Summer Palace: The Summer Palace of Peter the Great is located in the forest on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland, covering an area of nearly a thousand hectares. It was the suburban palace of the Russian tsars of all generations. The Summer Palace is an early building in St. Petersburg. At the beginning of the 18th century, Russian Czar Peter the Great ordered the construction of a summer palace with a simple and solemn appearance and luxurious interior decoration. At that time, many large-scale balls, palace celebrations and other activities were held here. Peter the Great would come here to spend his summer every year during his lifetime. After 1934, the Summer Palace was turned into a folk history museum. Today, the Summer Palace has become a complex of buildings that includes palace gardens in the 18th and 19th centuries. Due to its luxurious and magnificent architecture, the Summer Palace is known as the "Russian Versailles". The main representative building of the Summer Palace is a two-story palace. Peter the Great lived on the first floor, and his wife Catherine I (Peter the Great's second wife) lived on the second floor. The upper floor was extremely decorated. Gorgeous, the columns of the ballroom are decorated with Venetian mirrors.