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damian entwistle · @ukdamo
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this view of the throne room at the Peterhof, St Petersburg, Russia.

#throneroom #peterhof #saintpetersburg #russia #peterthegreat #palace #marquetry #floor

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Christopher Coenen 🎶💃✊🏻🕺🎨 · @tsetse
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Vasilii Surikov, 'The Bronze Horseman' (1870)

to on Senate Square in front of Saint Isaac's , ,

"Pressed to the railings. Darkness filled
His eyes. The prey of passions blazing
Within him, he stood sullenly
Before the royal effigy;
And quivering with fury, raising
His fist, as if compelled by some
Dark force to blind, impulsive action,
He hissed through teeth clenched in distraction:
‘You ... builder of grand schemes! I’ll come
And get you!’ – and then ran off, numb
With terror from a sudden vision:
He thought the fearsome tsar had turned
By slow degrees his face, which burned
With righteous anger and derision..."

#monument #peterthegreat #cathedral #saintpetersburg #russia #art #russian #equestrian #statue #french #falconet #sculpture #tsar #night #snow #winter #moon #poem #pushkin #surikov #fullmoon #horse #painting

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