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The Amber Room

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

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The Chinese Opera Theater

Pushkin, Russia

Chinese Village at Tsarskoe Selo

A model village fit for an emperor.

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The Grand Model of Russia

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Grand Maket Rossiya (Grand Model of Russia)

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

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The Dostoevsky Museum.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

F. M. Dostoyevsky Literary Memorial Museum

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

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Prince Felix Yusupov and his wife, Irena.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Rasputin Museum at Yusupov Palace

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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Outside the modern-day Research Institute, looking significantly better than it did under siege

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

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Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly collection in the Nabokov Museum

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Nabokov's Butterflies

Specimens collected by the author of Lolita and self-taught lepidopterist exhibited in his childhood home.

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