Europe · Austria · Salzburg
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Black Sea · Ukraine · Sevastopol
Diorama is a Greek word meaning "see through", "see a part". A diorama is a scenic canvas of an open, semicircular view with figures and other objects in the foreground. The founders of a diorama painting principle were two French artists of the early 19th century, Louis Daguerre and Charles Bouton. Russian artists began to adopt the principles of ...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Marble Palace (the Palace, for short), an architectural monument of the second half of the 18th century, was deemed by its contemporaries as "the only of its kind." Built at the location of the Post Court of Peter the Great, the Palace became a splendid "last piece" of the grand Palace Embankment along the Neva River.
Catherine the Great who...