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History Week Meme | Day 4: one building/location/architecture → Winter Palace

“The huge baroque Winter Palace, Rastrelli’s signature master piece, had taken eight years to build and was completed in 1761, the year Elizabeth died. Painted apple-green and white, with a façade that rose 450 feet, it was a massive structure of 1,050 rooms and 117 staircases.” – Robert K. Massie; Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

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