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Candidate of Architecture, Associate Professor Juliet Arturovna Kuchariants is familiar to readers from the essays “Antonio Rinaldi” and “Ivan Starov”, published in the “Architects of Our City” series. In his book about the artistic monuments of the city of Lomonosov, D.A. Kuchariants talks about the pearls of Russian architecture created by Rinaldi - the Chinese Palace and the Rolling Hill, about an elegant small building - the palace of Peter III. The author devotes a significant place to the ensemble of the Grand Palace. Together with the reader, she "examines" all of its buildings, as well as the Lower Garden, Petrovsky Park, Upper Park, pavilions and sculpture. At the end of the book, the reader finds information about the main stages in the development of the city of Lomonosov, which originated near the Grand Palace, and about some architectural monuments. The book, written in the genre of an essay-guide, is intended for a wide range of readers, tourists, sightseers.