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Mansion of Count Nikolai Saltykov
Built by Giacomo Quarenghi for the merchant Philipp Grootten (1784–88). Catherine the Great bought the house and presented it to Count Nikolai Saltykov as a reward for educating her grandson Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich (1796). Partially rebuilt by architect Carlo Rossi (1820).
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