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Oranienbaum
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Chinese Palace
Read more...The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum was designed by Italian architect Antonio Rinaldi in the Rococo style and built between 1762 and 1768 as a summer residence of Catherine the Great. The empress did n...
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Oranienbaum
Read more...The history of Oranienbaum begins in 1711, when the commission distributing land for the suburban mansions of the aristocracy assigned Prince Alexander Menshikov a plot opposite Kotlin Island on the ...
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