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Peter the First, or Peter the Great, is known unequivocally as the Westernizer
of Russia, a title which is justified, but which obscures somewhat the
paths toward modernization which Russia had already begun. It also obscures
those traits of Peter's which can be traced back to an earlier Muscovite
tradition.
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Part I
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral
Kunstkamera
Summer Palace (1710-14)
Oranienbaum
Tressini
LeBlond
Part II
Peterhof
Smolny Cathedral
Tsarskoe Selo (Great Palace, Green Dining Room)
Winter Palace
Academy of Fine Arts
Marble Palace
Cathedral of the Virgin of Kazan
New Admiralty
Moscow Gate (or Triumphal Arch)
Alexander Column
General Staff Arch
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Rinaldi
Rastrelli
Rossi
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