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Vorontsov Palace

palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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architecture of Saint Petersburg

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    In St. Petersburg: The rise to splendour

    …the Smolny Convent, and the Vorontsov and Stroganov palaces, among others; outside the city were built the summer palaces of Peterhof and of Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin). After a transitional period dominated by the architecture of Jean-Baptiste M. Vallin de la Mothe and Aleksandr Kokorinov, toward the end of the…

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