Czar Peter House (Netherlands)

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The Czar Peter House in Zaandam is one of the oldest surviving building in the Netherlands.

History

It was built in 1632 and was in 1697, when it was home for a time of Tsar Peter I, a certain Gerrit Kist. Kist, a blacksmith, and supported Peter during his training as a shipbuilder during the Great Embassy in the States-General was staying. The house later became the center of attraction also prominent tourist - in the guestbook immortalized, for example, Mikhail Gorbachev. Presented for instance a death mask of the Tsar and bust of Anna Pavlovna, but also curiosities like a reminder letter a Dutch officials at the Russian Tsar house in which this has been asked to pay a debt of five cents within a period of three days. Additional facilities in the house that can be visited, furniture from the time of Peter the Great.

The small wooden house was covered in 1895 at the suggestion of the last Russian Tsar with a construction made ​​of stone and glass, which should stylistically reminiscent of a Russian Orthodox church, but has also been compared to a Neo-Gothic tram depot. For this purpose it was put on a stone foundation. This shelter was designed by the architect Salm back who has also designed, among other things, the Artis Aquarium, and was also made ​​in 2001 under monument protection.