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Saint Petersburg: the capital of Imperial Russia
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Saint Petersburg:the capital of Imperial Russia
Made by: Olga Modestova
Sophie Strelnikova
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What do you know about it?3.
St. Isaac's Cathedral-
built between 1818 and 1858
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architect: Auguste Montferrand
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The colonnade gives superb view of the city
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The Church of the Saviouron Spilled Blood
-easily confused with St. Basil's Cathedral
- built on the site where tsar Alexand II was fatally
wounded
- “pseudo-Russian” style
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The Hermitage- works by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul
Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh,
Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and others.