Музей игральных карт (Петергоф)

The Museum of Playing Cards in Peterhof is located in one of the cavalier houses of the Grand Palace ensemble on Pravlenskaya Street, 2. The basis of its collection, opened to the public on September 25, 2007, was the collection of Alexander Semyonovich Perelman, who spent more than thirty years collecting card decks and board game items. The museum's display cases feature cards for tarot, bezique, whist, bridge, lotto, solitaires, and fortune-telling from Japan, China, England, Spain, France, Germany, and Russia. Among the exhibits are themed decks, including "museum" and "theatrical" ones, for example, a deck from the Comédie-Française, and visitors can recognize the People's Artist of Russia Ksenia Rappoport in the guise of the card queens.