Tallinn in the time of Peter I

We will touch upon the time of the emperor’s stay in Revel and visit numerous places reminiscent of his greatness, get acquainted with many architectural monuments associated with the name of Peter.

We offer you a sightseeing tour of the old city, Tallinn during the time of Peter the Great. A tour of the old town is a great opportunity to get acquainted with the key sights of Tallinn, enjoy the view of its palaces, admire the beauty of the old city. Our guide will accompany you throughout the tour.

Unlike the tour “Heritage of Peter I of Tallinn”, our route will take place within the old city. We will see the Shlippenbach house, the curfew house, the Freedom Square (Petrovskaya) - a monument to Peter I, the Town Hall Square, the house of the Brotherhood of Blackheads, the city palace, the Menshikov Palace, the Transfiguration Church.

Peter the Great cut a window into Europe through the Swedish-controlled Baltic provinces with such energy that the chips flew. If Revel and Rogervik had belonged to me in 1702, I would have founded my residence and the capital of transformed Russia not in the lowlands of the Neva, but here. So said Peter I. 1711, visiting the first city on the shores of the Gulf of Tallinn, and all he visited Revel, so it was called Tallinn, 9 times.

On March 13, 1712, the Tsar thanked the Estonian Germans for surrendering the city with unprecedented liberties, called the “Ostsee order”. Peter returned to the barons the lands taken to the treasury by the Swedish king Charles XI, returned serfdom, gave all power in the city to the Germans and curtailed the rights of Russian nobles coming to the Baltics. February 2, 1714 in Revel begins to build a military harbor and in the same year Peter I from the widow of Ratman Drenteln buys a country house at the foot of limestone clay. This house now houses the Museum of Peter I.

The Baltic states do not belong to Russia for another 7 years, but Peter knows that he will never leave here. And in the summer of 1718, a little below the house of Peter, according to the project of the Italian architect Nicolo Michetti, the Catherine (Kadriorg) Palace began to be built and the park was broken, which can be seen in the car excursion "Heritage of Peter I of Tallinn". Now in the royal palace there is an exposition of the art museum of Russian and Western European art.