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Strelka

architectural complex, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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feature of Saint Petersburg

  • St. Petersburg
    In St. Petersburg: Vasilyevsky Island

    …architectural complex known as the Strelka (“Pointer”), facing the bifurcation of the Neva. Behind the two great Rostral Columns, decorated by carved ships’ prows, and across Pushkin Square, the point rises majestically to the former Exchange building (Thomas de Thomon, 1805–10), the city’s finest example of early 19th-century style and…

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