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Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject located in Northwestern Federal District of Russia on the delta of the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27, 1703 as a "window to Europe", it served as the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years. To really feel all the beauty and harmony of St. Petersburg's architecture one must stroll along the banks of the Neva, listen to the ripple of its waves, contemplate the city's buildings, the vistas of its quays and canals.Only then will the city on the Neva reveal itself in all its charm – the charm of the wonderful and inimitable City of Bridges.

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Early Russia’s foremost cultural and art centre. For the many centuries ever since Novgorod produced a large artistic school and preserved numberless monuments of the 11th-17th-century architecture, along with artistically outstanding works of early monumental painting.

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Church of St John the Theologian and Church of St Boris and Gleb in Plotniki

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Novgorod. The Torgovaya Storona. Church of St John the Theologian in Radokovitsy (1383-1384); in the background, Church of SS Boris and Gleb in Plotniki (1536). General view from the North Continue reading →

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Church of the Transfiguration of Christ

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Novgorod. The Torgovaya Storona. Church of the Transfiguration of Christ on Ilyina Street (1374). General view from the South Continue reading →

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Church of St Theodore Stratilates-on-Ruchei

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Novgorod. The Torgovaya Storona. Church of St Theodore Stratilates-on-Ruchei (1361). View from the South Continue reading →

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Torgovaya Storona

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Novgorod. Torgovaya Storona. In the foreground, Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa (1207; rebuilt in 1345, 16th-18th century); in the centre, the belfry (late 17th century) of the Cathedral of St Nicholas-on-Dvorische; on the right, the Vorotnaya (Gate) Tower of the Gostiny Dvor (Merchant’s Yard) (late 17th century). General view Continue reading →

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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Perynsky Hermitage

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Novgorod. Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Perynsky Hermitage (late 12th-early 13th century). General view Continue reading →

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Church of the Transfiguration of Christ-on-Nereditsa

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Novgorod. Church of the Transfiguration of Christ-on-Nereditsa (1198). General view from the North Continue reading →

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The Yuriev Monastery

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Novgorod. The Yuriev Monastery. St George Cathedral(l 119). General view from the East Continue reading →

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The Antoniev Monastery

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Novgorod. The Antoniev Monastery. Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin (1117; with the porch added in the 17th century), to the right, the Church of the Presentation in the Temple (1533-1536). General view. Continue reading →

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Kremlin-citadel (general view)

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Novgorod. Kremlin-citadel (walls and towers dating from 1484-1490). General view from the Torgovaya (Merchandise) Storona. Continue reading →

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