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Peterhof Razvodnaya Ulitsa, 2, Peterhof, St Petersburg, 198516 |
The Peterhof Palace was Peter the Great’s and Catherine the Great’s summer palace respectively. It was my favorite large palace owned by the Imperial Family because the grounds were so beautiful. It is situated on th... more
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Peter and Paul Cathedral Petropavlovskaia Krepost', 3, St Petersburg, 197046 |
This is one of the crowning jewels of St. Petersburg history. It is also the resting place of the remains of the last tsar and his family. As with most of the restoration work of Russia and St. Petersburg, words fail at ... 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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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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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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Aleksandrovskii Dvorets Dvortsovaya Ulitsa, 2, Tsarskoe Selo, Pushkin, 196600 |
After the war, the Soviet Ministry of Culture and the Leningrad Commission for the Preservation of Historic Monuments made detailed plans to restore and present the Alexander Palace as a museum devoted to Alexander Pushk... more
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Kronshtadt Kotlin Island, Gulf of Finland, St. Petersburg |
A small city, NW European Russia, on the small island of Kotlin in the Gulf of Finland, c.15 mi (20 km) from Saint Petersburg. It is one of the chief naval bases for the Russian Baltic fleet. The harbor is icebound for s... more
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Zimnyi Dvorets Dvortsovaia naberezhnaia, 34, (entrance to Hermitage museum), St Petersburg, 191186 |
The Winter Palace is opened to the circles of Court society on the 1st of January, at Easter, on the anniversary of the accession to the throne, when a foreign prince is received, and at the baptism or the marriage of a ... more
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