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Sankt Peterburg, Russia

Saint Petersburg (Russian: Sankt-Peterburg) is the second largest city and the cultural capital of Russia. It is located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city was founded in 1703 bу Реtег the Great as a new imperial capital of Russia (moved from Moscow for two centuries). A story about …

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The Russian Museum. Sankt Peterburg, Russia

I’ve never been so blown away! Ivan Aivazovsky, Karl Briullov, Konstantin Makovsky, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Surikov, Victor Vasnetsov… and their Masterpieces exhibited under one roof, the roof of The Russian Museum! The State Russian Museum (formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III) is the largest depository of Russian fine art in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The …

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