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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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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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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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Dom Knigi “Book House”, situated in Art Nouveau building that was once
the Singer House
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