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Guards Headquarters
Built by Alexander Brullov (1837–43). Housed the organisation known as the Guards Command Chancellery (late 18th century), Guards General Staff (1817) and Guards Headquarters (1828). Alexander Brullov also reconstructed the adjoining Exercise House.
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