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Igel

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2. Petershoff.
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 11:21 AM
Oct 5

It's Peter the Great's summer palace west of Petersburg.

Catherine the Great's was no less sumptuous down in Pushkino.

But it was the style back in the Baroque--one would hardly consider the kings of France in the 1700s to be Putin's puppets ... Yet Versailles' ballroom.

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