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Cathedral of Christ the Saviour Volkhonka Ulitsa, 15, Moscow, 119019 |
After Alexander I's death in 1825, his younger brother, Nicholas, ascended the Russian throne. Remembering Alexander's wish, Nicholas I instructed that architectural designs should once again be submitted for the buildin... more
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Pavlovsk Ulitsa Revoliutsii 20, (Tsarskoe Selo), St Petersburg, 189000 |
At first, the Empress wanted to have the original decoration of the palace reproduced to the smallest detail, but Voronikhin succeeded in convincing her that the style of the new interiors called for modern decor a l'... more
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White House Krasnopresnenskaia Naberezhnaia, 2, Moscow, 103274 |
The White House was main witness to two of the defining moments of post-Soviet history. The first was the August coup of 1991, when Gorbachev was ousted by hardliners and a Yeltsin-led democratic alliance took the White ... more
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Victory Park Ploshchad' Pobedy, Moscow, 121293 |
Rumours abounded for a years after the Park opened of strange things happening to people - many said they felt short of breath, or choked, or even fainted. Amid talk of the park having an aura , an investigation was set ... more
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Arkhangelskoe Arkhangelskoe pos., (Krasnogorskii region), Moscow, 143420 |
The main palace is an architectural marvel embodying five decades of Neoclassical design and contains original paintings by Tiepolo, Van Dyck and Boucher and an entire hall devoted to portraits of the Prince's mistresses... more
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Vyborg 174 km from St Petersburg, St. Petersburg |
park lying along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of the Vyborg Bay. The park occupies 163 hectares of land. For two hundred years (between 1788 - 1943) Mon Repos was owned by the family of Baron Nikolai who etern... more
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Senate Kremlin, Moscow, 101000 |
While the Senate Building used to house the government during the last century, it is now the Russian President's residence. The interior has been updated accordingly, but the exterior still retains its original facade.
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Aleksandrovskaia Kolonna Dvortsovaia Ploshchad', St Petersburg |
The centerpiece of Palace Square is a memorial to Russia's victory over Napoléon. Approximately 156 feet tall, it was commissioned in 1830 by Nicholas I in memory of his brother, Tsar Alexander I, and was designed... more
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Iusupovskii Dvorets Naberezhnaia Reki Moiki 94, St Petersburg, 190000 |
The palace is worth visiting not only as one of the best architectural monument of the palace architecture of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century but also from the historical point of view. The palace, to be precise... more
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Khram Spasa na Krovi Naberezhnaia Kanala Gribeodova, 2b, St Petersburg, 190011 |
It is long since been tradition in Russian architecture to erect religious buildings in honour of historic events. The Church in the Name of the Resurrection of Christ on the Site of the Mortal Wounding of His Honoured M... more
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