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You will enjoy a visit to the Russian Museum of Ethnography, one of the largest museums of the kind both in Russia and in the world, often nicknamed "The Ethnographic Hermitage". Its collection numbers 500 000 original ethnographic items and photographs belonging to 158 nations and nationalities that inhabited the territory of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation at various times.

Peterhof has always been associated with fountains. This former summer residence of the Russian emperors has earned a world-wide fame as the capital of fountains. Peterhof was built in the beginning of XVIII century as a copy of Versailles — the famous residence of the French kings — and in some ways even surpassed it. Especially impressive was its system of naturally operating fountains.

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