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© Stéphane Compoint
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Aerial view of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, the third largest baroque
cathedral in Europe after Rome's Saint Peter and London's St Paul ( 300 000
tons, 4 000m2, 101 meters high). Built by French architect Auguste de
Montferrand, it was inaugurated in 1858. In the middle, from left to right,
the Admiralty and the Winter Palace. In the background, the Strelka (the
tip) of Vassilievski Island with the Academy of Sciences, the Kounskamera,
the Marine Museum, the Rostral Columns, the Peter and Paul Fortress, and
Petrograd, the city's first neighborhood founded in 1703. The cathedral's
dome, visible from every place in the city, required 100 kilos of gold to
cover it.
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