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  Catherine Palace and the Amber Room, Pushkin

  The summer residence of the Russian empresses at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), 25 km south of St Petersburg.

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  Peterhof Palace and fountains

  Peter the Great's palace on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, built to rival Versailles.

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  Lake Baikal at Listvyanka

  Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest and deepest lake in the world, more than 1,600 m deep, and holds about a fifth of all the fresh unfroz…

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  Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, St Petersburg

  A colourful Russian-style church with onion domes, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881.

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  Golden Ring: Suzdal

  A small town north-east of Moscow, the jewel of the Golden Ring of medieval towns, with white churches, monasteries and wooden houses among…

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