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Russia
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Saint Petersburg
Established for the Czar Peter the Great One on
27 of May in the year 1703. It became the
capital of the Russian Empire for more than two
hundred years. It then ceased being the
Capital of Russia in 1918, after the Revolution
of 1917. It also had other names Petrogrado
(1914-1924) and Leningrad (1924-1991  
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Dvortsovaya Square - Column Remembering Alexander
The Great note Employees Visitors to the
Hermitage Museum.
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Hermitage museum As it appears beside the
flowing river. Established in 1764 and
inaugurated in 1852, the museum occupies five
contiguous palaces. The greatest being the old
Winter Palace which was the official residence of
the czars.
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Hermitage Museum. - from the other the side
directed toward the Dvortsovaya Square.
Commissioned by Bartolomeo Rastrelli in white and
green style. The
palace has 1,057 halls and rooms 1,786 doors and
1,945 windows.
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Catherine the Great was the first imperial
occupant. The construction required more than
three million craftsmen, one of its first
great acquisitions received in 1865 Madona
and the Child (Litta Madona),by Leonardo of the
Vinci -
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Hermitage museum Interior Balconey
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Hermitage museum Beautiful architectural
columns and glowing light of candelabras  
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Hermitage museum - the old original library
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Hermitage museum - the Raphael Loggias gallery
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Hermitage museum Perhaps the beginning of a new
great Russian artist? Who knows
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan (1810-1811), the
main cathedral of the Metropolis of
St. Petersburg
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Peter The Greats, summer palace. Actually it is
a series of palaces and gardens, constructed
between 1714 and 1725
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Peter The Great Palace - the source of the
Gulf of Samson and the canal to the sea, with
sight of the Gulf of  Finland, an arm of the
Baltic sea. .
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Peter The Great Palace - architecture and
paintings
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Peter The Great Palace One of the dining
rooms
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Peter The Great Palace- One of the bedrooms.
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Resurrection church of Christ (known as the
Church of the spilled blood of Our Savior) was
constructed between 1883 and 1907
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Resurrection of Christ Church (known as Church of
the spilled blood of Our Savior
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The Catherine palace, in rococo style. It was the
summer residence of the Russian czars, situated
in the district of Tsarskove today known as ,
Pushkin .
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Catherine palace in Pushkin architectural
details
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Catherine palace in Pushkin informal dining
room
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Statue of Alexander Pushkin (1900),The poet
whose vast knowledge of the Russian language and
wealth in its use influenced authors such as
Gogol, Liermontov and Turgueneiev
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Mikhailovsky palace, constructed in 1819-1825,
home of the State Russian Museum since 1895.
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Cathedral of Saint Isaac
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Cathedral of Saint Isaac The beautiful
decorated dome
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Czar Nicholas II and The Romanov Family in
1911 After the Revolution of 1917 (St.
Petersburg), then capital of the Empire, lost its
title to Moscow, as capital of Russia
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Aurora Cruiser launched in 1900, a shining star
of the imperial shipyards, it became a symbol of
the October Revolution. Today, converted to a
museum.
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On a summer night, with the Church Our Savoir of
Spilled Blood and the deep canal
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... The Same Area... On a brisk winter day...
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But then the colours of Spring always arrive in
St. Petersburg
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Avtovo Subway Station
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Mariinsky Theatre - Inaugurated in 1860, it is
historical theatre of opera and ballet. (Kirov
State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet from
1935 up to 1992)
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Mariinsky Theatre really beautiful
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Swan Lake Presentation of the famous ballet of
Tchaikovsky in the Imperial Theatre in Fontanka
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Neva, is the main street planned for Peter The
Great One to be the beginning of the road
between Novogorod and Moscow.
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Nevsky Prospect - today the avenue goes from the
Admiralty until the Moscow Railway Station
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Grand Europe Hotel
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Morning Coffee at the Grand Europe Hotel
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This most sumptuous building other than the
imperial palace, was constructed in 1760. In1830
it was bought by Duke N.B. Yusupov. On a visit to
Italy the eccentric Duke was so enchanted with a
staircase in white marble he bought the palace
only to bring the steps to St. Petersburg . Today
this palace is a museum.
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Monument to the water carrier Museum and
administrative complex of Vodokanal.
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Egyptian Bridge - crossing the Lermontov Avenue
on the River Fontanka. Esfínge workmanship of
the sculptor Pavel Sokolov - 19 th. century.
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The river snows and the Twelve Colleges of the
Saint Petersburg University
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Bank Bridge - on the Griboyedov canal 19th.
century
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Dom Knigi Book House, situated in Art Nouveau
building that was once the Singer House
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Dom Knigi book House
Interior
The Exterior
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Fyodor Dostoievsky, writer whose works ,
including Crime and Punishment
The Karamazov Brothers, had deep and
permanent effect on intellectual thought and
literature
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Dostoievsky Memorial Museum - where he wrote
Crime and Punishment'
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East St. Petersburg is a charmer and
Dostoevsky often said its beauty only will
save the world
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Just one normal day in St Petersburg
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