Palaces, Hermitage Museum 100 fountains
Unlike Versailles, the fountains of Peterhof are gravity-fed by water from 20km away and 70m height. So much easier to maintain (no pumps) but requiring precise engineering. See these all reach the same height? They are all winterised every year (for the last few centuries) so that they are not damaged by the freeze. Peter was a joker who had fountains spring up in unexpected places to soak his visitors. In the siege of Leningrad the Nazis occupied this Summer Palace.
Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more 
