The Menshikov Palace, the first stone building of St. Petersburg built for its first governor. Addition to the building itself, the territory also has a bath, medovarnya, bakery and smithy, so usadba stretched along the Vasilyevsky ostrova.Posle links Menshikov for embezzlement of public funds, it land given to the use of Cadet corps in Soviet times there was a military-political school, and after restoration it became a branch of the Hermitage.