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June 1998 - St. Petersburg, Russia
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| The Church of the Resurrection in St. Petersburg,
also known as "Saviour On The Spilt Blood" because it was built on the spot where
Czar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 and styled after St. Basil's in Moscow |
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The Cruiser Aurora, according to legend, fired a shot on
November 7, 1917 in the direction of the Winter Palace, where the besieged members of the
Provisional Government were still holding out; it was the signal for the insurgents to storm
the Palace, arrest the ministers and turn over power to the Bolsheviks ("majority" party),
beginning the communist revolution under Lenin |
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| The incomparable Hermitage (Winter Palace) museum:
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| The Catherine Palace ("Summer Palace") at Tsarskoe Selo (or Pushkin),
some 15 miles from St. Petersburg
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| Petrodvorets, or Peterhof is also about 15 miles from St. Petersburg
and was built by Peter the Great. Behind me is the Great Palace and the Grand Cascade,
an amazing set of fountains! |
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