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Tsarskoe Selo — the Legacy of Three Empresses
One after another three empresses reigned over Tsarskoe Tselo, each one making her own contribution and impression on the estate's palace and parks. In 1710 Peter I gave his wife, Catherine I, the former estate of a Swedish magnate, along with 40 small villages. She then built a modest Dutch-style palace with an accompanying park. Catherine the First's daughter, Elizaveta Petrovna, was frivolous and beautiful and loved balls. With the help of the great Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli she had a luxurious golden palace built where she could host lavish parties and other festivities and named it the Catherine Palace in honor of her mother. Elizaveta Petrovna's daughter-in-law, Catherine II, completed the ensemble by adding aspects of classicism to the architecture and by decorating and outfitting the regal summer residence.
Tour of Vladivostok
Just 15 years ago not everyone was allowed to enter Vladivostok - the city was home to a Russian Navy base and therefore closed to foreigners. Nowadays Vladivostok serves as a centre of international partnership in the Asia-Pacific Region as well as an attractive tourist destination.
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Tour of Vladivostok
Rafting Festival on Chusovaya River
The Chusovaya River Native rafting festival took place in June 2011 in the Urals. Participants – including RTG TV’s Igor Maximenko – familiarized themselves with local traditions, constructed models of traditional Ural wooden barges, called «barki», saw the first copper works, built by well-known entrepreneur Domidov, and walked down the Chusovaya River along the same path Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack chieftain and conqueror of Siberia once did.
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