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© Stéphane Compoint
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Aerial view of the Hermitage Museum and of the historical city center.
In the foreground, the general army headquarters, Palace Place, and the
Alexander Column. In the middle from left to right, the Admiralty, the
Dvortsovy Bridge, the Hermitage and the Winter Palace. Behind from left to
right, the Strelka (the tip) of Vassilievki Island with the Kounskamera, the
Academy of Sciences, the Marine Museum, and the Rostral Columns. In the
background, Petrograd, the city's first neighborhood, founded in 1703.
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