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Left: Detail of Catherine Palace at Pushkin near St Petersburg.
Above: The 18th century Catherine Palace at Pushkin, 16 miles (25km from the centre of St Petersburg. |
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Left: Inside the Catherine Palace at Pushkin.
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Below: One of the two Rostral Columns on Vasilyevskiy Island in St Petersburg. The columms served as lighthouses.
Right: Vasilyevskiy Island provides some of the best views of St Petersburg and is a popular place for wedding photos.
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Left: The Cathedral of Peter and Paul in the middle of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersberg.
Above: St Isaac's Cathedral, one of the largest in the world, was constructed from 1818 to 1858. |
Below: Some of the decoration inside the Cathedral of Peter and Paul.
Right: Church of the Resurrection of Christ by the Griboyedov Canal.
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Left: Inside one of the many rooms in the vast hermiage Museum in St Petersberg.
Above: Still Life with Drapery, 1890-94, by Paul Cezanne is just one of the thousands of paintings in the Hermitage collection. |
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Left: The cruiser Aurora that famously fired the blank shot on 25th October 1917 that signalled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace and sparked the October Revolution. It is now moored on the Neva River in St Petersberg.
Above: Criusing the Fontanka canalized river in St Petersburg. |
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