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The 'Venice of the North', with its numerous canals and more than 400 bridges, is the result of a vast urban project begun in 1703 under Peter the Great. Later known as Leningrad (in the former USSR), the city is closely associated with the October Revolution. Its architectural heritage reconciles the very different Baroque and pure neoclassical styles, as can be seen in the Admiralty, the Winter Palace, the Marble Palace and the Hermitage.
Postcard 1 : The Palaces and Parks Ensembles of the Town of Peterhof
Sender: Julius_Dee, Sent on: 14 May, 2014, Received on: 6 Jun, 2014, Travel time: 22 days
Postcard 2 : The Small Throne Room, the Winter Palace
The Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, also known as the Peter the Great Memorial Hall, was created for Tsar Nicholas I in 1833, by the architect Auguste de Montferrand.[1] Following a fire in 1837, in which most of the palace was destroyed, the room was recreated exactly as it had been before by the architect Vasily Stasov.
Designed in a loose Baroque style, the throne is recessed in an apse before a reredos, supported by two Corinthian columns of jasper, which contains a large canvas dedicated to Peter I with Minerva by Jacopo Amigoni. In the room proper above dado height the walls are lined with crimson velvet embellished with double-headed eagles of silver thread, above which is a shallow vaulted ceiling.
Sender: Marina234, Sent on: 15 Sep, 2013, Received on: 7 Oct, 2013, Travel time: 22 days
Postcard 3 : St. Isaac's Cathedral
Sender: Irina, Sent on: 5 Apr, 2013, Received on: 16 May, 2013, Travel time: 41 days
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