Word: rastrelli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia. It was Peter's cherished window to the sea. It was the place where Tchaikovsky and Dostoevski and Mussorgsky lived and were buried. It was the home of the divine Kshesinskaya, the ballerina whom Nicholas II loved. It was the city of grey and pink granite, of Rastrelli's baroque Winter Palace, Catherine the Great's classicism, Alexander I's low-lying "architectural landscapes." At its Imperial Opera, Prince Igor had its première. Rembrandt's Polish Nobleman hung in its Hermitage. It was the town where skylarks sang, in whose parks birches...
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