2) Petrodvorets. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Petrodvorets, (pye´trdvryets´) (KEY) , formerly Peterhof (petyirgof´) (KEY) , city, NW European Russia, on Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Administratively part...

3) Peter III, czar of Russia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...guards, led by Catherine in person (who had donned the guards' uniform), set out for Peterhof, where they forced Peter to sign his abdication. A few days later he...

4) Chapter XX. Part II. Tolstoy, Leo. 1917. Anna Karenin. Vols. XVI & XVII. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...9 Vronsky had as a fact promised to call at Bryansky s, some eight miles from Peterhof, and to bring him some money owing for some horses; and he hoped to have time...

5) Chapter 4. The Fall of the Provisional Government. Reed, John. 1922. Ten Days That Shook the World
...capture of the Telephone Exchange, the Baltic station, the Telegraph Agency; the Peterhof yunkers unable to reach Petrograd; the Cossacks undecided; arrest of some...

6) Chapter XXVI. Part II. Tolstoy, Leo. 1917. Anna Karenin. Vols. XVI & XVII. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...thinking about it at all. 2 Alexey Alexandrovitch s permanent summer villa was in Peterhof, and the Countess Lidia Ivanovna used as a rule to spend the summer there,...

7) Saint Petersburg, city, Russia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Outside the city are Pushkin, with the Summer Palace, and the former imperial residence of Peterhof (now Petrodvorets) and Gatchina. A striking phenomenon of St....

8) Russian art and architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the Winter Palace (now part of the Hermitage), Smolny Cathedral, and the facade at Peterhof, one of the most beautiful buildings in St. Petersburg. 7Catherine the...

9) Chapter XXVII. Part II. Tolstoy, Leo. 1917. Anna Karenin. Vols. XVI & XVII. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...races, I suppose? 24 Oh yes! answered Alexey Alexandrovitch. And here s the glory of Peterhof, Princess Tverskoy, he added, looking out of window at the elegant English...

10) Chapter XXIV. Part II. Tolstoy, Leo. 1917. Anna Karenin. Vols. XVI & XVII. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...the remark has just been made to me that you weren t here, and that you were seen in Peterhof on Monday. 18 There are matters which only concern those directly interested...