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Renovated Imperial Palace Opens for Visitors

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Renovated Imperial Palace Opens for Visitors


24.06.2010

A palace once owned by the last Russian Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna has been reopened to visitors in Tsarskoye Selo outside St Petersburg after almost 70 years after it was destroyed in WWII, subsequent restoration and then management by the Russian military, Voice of Russia reports.

At a ceremony to cut the ribbon on the first three renovated halls, Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev presented the museum with a watercolour portrait of Empress Alexandra, painted in 1897 by her sister Yelizaveta. The picture was stolen by the Nazis and returned to this country with the help of a woman in Frankfurt-am-Main.

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