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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

05-24-2023-0228 - Summer Palace ; Strelna

Painting of the Summer Palace of Elizaveta Petrovna in 1756.

The Summer Palace (Russian: Ле́тний дворе́ц) is either of the two wooden Baroque palaces built by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli on Tsaritsa's Meadow behind the Summer Garden in St. Petersburg. Neither building survives. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Palace_(Rastrelli)

Leib Guard reception at the Konstantin Palace. A 19th-century painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelna

 

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