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Built on a swamp as the new capital of Russia, St Petersburg is an 18th-century city of remarkable grandeur, slowly reviving from its Communist era. With their colourful, playful Baroque facades, its buildings exude the opulence of Tsarist Russia, but are more European in essence than the Kremlin domes of Moscow. It was from St Petersburg that the tsars ruled Russia for two centuries until their downfall in 1917.

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