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Also known as the Moika Palace, Yusupov Palace is a St. Petersburg landmark ... For more information, visit the official website. Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as ...

Then came World War II. Recreation of the Amber Room in Catherine Palace, Pushkin, near St Petersburg, Russia, 2000. Photo: Patrick Aventurier / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. In the summer of 1941 ...

The iconic residence was such an important landmark that no structure in St Petersburg ... style since the palace was remodelled in the neoclassical style by Catherine ll – more commonly ...

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and heads of other countries participating in an informal meeting of the CIS heads of state have toured the Catherine Palace in Saint ...

When G8 leaders sit down in St Petersburg ... to complete the city. Catherine the Great (1762-96) was probably the most active, overseeing the completion of the Winter Palace, a building that ...

Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi said that work to rebuild the Amber Room at Tsarskoye Selo, just outside St Petersburg ... with its amber panels became a major feature of the Catherine Palace in ...

The Amber Room was a chamber in the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg, decorated in amber panels, gold leaf, and mirrors. Believing it was of German origin, Hitler wanted to reclaim it as a ...

The farewell to Prigozhin came as Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba meets French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine ... of his hometown St Petersburg, his press service ...

The second-largest museum in the world by gallery space, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, was started from Catherine’s ... next to the Winter Garden Palace, so she commissioned ...