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Lions Of St. Petersburg

Oct. 20, 2016 Tourism

According to the plan of Peter I, St. Petersburg was supposed to be the Venice of the North, whose symbol is a lion.

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The mass distribution for the city of bronze, cast iron, copper and marble lions had already in the post-Petrine era, the beginning of the XIX century, when Russian classicism flourished, relying on ancient art. The architecture of Petersburg – hundreds of lions and other creatures, nearly everyone has a story, and the townspeople awfully proud of them