To St. Petersburg round the Baltic Cruise - St Petersburg Menshikov Palace

Next day, I escorted a tour to the Menshikov & Yusupov Palaces. Menshikov was variously, a favorite of Peter the Great's or in the dog house, for failing to complete projects on time, although by & large, Peter could not do without him, being short of educated & mostly competent ministers who shared his modernist outlook.

Menshikov Palace	Menshikov Palace model	Menshikov himself in the garden
Main staircase	A great place for a wedding
Great tapestries	An inlaid table
Tiled bedroom!	Dutch tiles very popular

Many paintings - some mediocre

A Menshikov daughter

Ceiling painting

Catherine, Peter's Empress