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When the Nazis invaded Russia, Catherine's Palace, outside the city of St. Pet
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In 1979, reconstruction of the Amber Room began and was just completed this year in June. No pictures are allowed now in the room but on our first visit, when about a third of the new panels were installed, there was no restriction and we were able to get the picture you see here.
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The palace was originally constructed by Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great, back in the early 1700s. Over time it was torn down and rebuilt a couple of times and then brought into its present form by Catherine the Great. After the fall of the tsars, the palace became a museum until the Nazis visit which left it in ruins. It has become a monumental restoration project for the Russian people.
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One of the most amazing views as in the palace is as you stand on one end of a great hall that leads through all of the rooms and look to the other end of the palace. It is like looking into a mirror that reflects one of those optical illusions of depth to infinity.
There are many sitting rooms and rooms wit
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Sleeping Beauty may have a castle, but Catherine's home is most definitely a palace.
More on St. Petersburg:
St. Petersburg
Hermitage
Church on the Spilled Blood
Peterhof and the Metro
Pies and another palace
St. Isaac's and St. Peter and Paul
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