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The Catherine Palace, Sadovaya ulitsa, 7, Pushkin, Russia, 196601
The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo, 25 km southeast of St. Petersburg, Russia.
It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars. |
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The Chapel at the Catherine Palace
The Catherine Palace, Sadovaya ulitsa, 7, Pushkin, Russia, 196601
The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo, 25 km southeast of St. Petersburg, Russia.
It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars. |
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ornate hallway, Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections include the largest collection of paintings in the world.
The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian Tsars
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Novgorod Kremlin Walls Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Novgorod Kremlin (also Detinets) stands on the left bank of the Volkhov River in Veliky Novgorod. The compound was originally the site of a pagan burial ground upon which the first bishop of Novgorod built the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom around 989.
The current fortress was built between 1484 and 1490 by Muscovite builders following Grand Prince Ivan III's conquest of the city in 1478; a third of it was paid for by the Novgorodian archbishop Gennady.
It is eliptical, 545 meters long and 240 meter wide with nine surviving towers (three other towers have not survived). The walls are 1,487 meters in circumference.
UNESCO recognised Novgorod as a World Heritage Site in 1992 |
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Gallery Pavlovsk Palace Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg, Russia
In 1777 The Empress Catherine II of Russia gave a parcel of a thousand hectares of forest along the winding Slavyanka River, four kilometers from her residence at Tsarskoye Selo, to her son and heir Paul I and his wife Maria Feodorovna, to celebrate the birth of their first son, the future Alexander I of Russia.
On it Paul built the Pavlovsk Palace. After his death, it became the home of his widow, Maria Feodorovna. The palace and the large English garden surrounding it are now a Russian state museum and public park.
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The Citadel of Rostov Yaroslavl Oblast Russia |
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The Boudoir of Empress Maria, Winter Palace, Palace Embankment, 32, St Petersburg, Russia, 190000.
The Winter Palace was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian Tsars
Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt
Today, the restored palace forms part of the complex of buildings housing the Hermitage Museum. |
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The Drawing Room in Rococo II Style, with Cupids by Edward Petrovich Hau, Winter Palace, Palace Embankment, 32, St Petersburg, Russia, 190000.
The Winter Palace was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian Tsars
Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt
Today, the restored palace forms part of the complex of buildings housing the Hermitage Museum. |
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