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© Stéphane Compoint
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Aerial view of the city center. In the foreground, the Moïka Canal cuts
across the Nevsky, the most famous avenue of Russia. In the middle from left
to right: Decabrist Place, the Admiralty, the Hermitage and the Winter
Palace, Palace Place and the Alexandre Column, the general army headquarters.
In the background, from left to right: Vassilievski Island and the Strelka
(the tip) with the Academy of Sciences, the Kounskamera, the Marine Museum,
the Rostral Columns, the Dvortsovy Bridge, Petrograd, the city's first
quarter founded in 1703, the Peter and Paul Fortress with the cathedral of
the same name.
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