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Saint Petersburg
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Established for the Czar PeterCzar Peter the Great OneGreat 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 – Beautiful architectural columns and glowing light of candelabras
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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 Great’s, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Egyptian Bridge - crossing the Lermontov Avenue on the River Fontanka. “Esfínge” workmanship of the sculptor Pavel Sokolov - 19 th. century.
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Dom Knigi “Book House”, situated in Art Nouveau building that was once the Singer House
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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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East St. Petersburg is a charmer and Dostoevsky often said: ”it’s beauty only
will save the world”