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The Breathtaking Hermitage Museum, Filled With Treasures Like the Kolyvan Vase and the Peacock Clock, First Opened to the Public on This Day in 1852
Thanks to another Russian empress, the museum has something else to offer: cats. Years after Catherine turned the Winter Palace into the palatial museum it is today, the empress Elizabeth I ...
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Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796)
In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church ... III but he was soon overthrown with Catherine being declared empress. Peter was then killed shortly afterwards and it is not ...