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Founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as Russia’s “window on Europe,” St Petersburg has always been a ...
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Our Lady of the Sign is a waist-length image of the Virgin Mary with her hands raised upwards and a...
In 1842, Heinrich Stackenschneider reconstructed the Own Dacha in an exaggerated Neo-Baroque style....