Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1782-03-10
This morning we went to see the palace at Oranienbaum, and then dined and after dinner set
off in our slays from Oranienbaum for Peterhoff at five minutes past two o'clock, and
arrived there, at three o'clock wanting twenty minutes the distance being 9 wersts. We came
from Oranienbaum to Peterhoff on the land whereas yesterday we were upon the Gulph of
Cronstadt. We saw the palace of Peterhoff and then set out for St. Petersbourg upon the
Gulph, and arrived there in one hour and three quarters, (from 10 minutes before 4. to 35
past five