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    Oranienbaum (Russian: Ораниенба́ум) is a Russian royal residence, located on the Gulf of Finland west of St. Petersburg. The Palace ensemble and the city...
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    Lomonosov (Russian: Ломоно́сов; before 1948: Oranienbaum, Ораниенба́ум) is a municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg...
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  • Oranienbaum may refer to: Germany Oranienbaum, Germany, a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Oranienbaum-Wörlitz Russia Oranienbaum, Russia (Russian: Ораниенба́ум)...
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    consummated the marriage. During the sixteen years of their residence in Oranienbaum, Catherine took numerous lovers, while her husband did the same in the...
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    Steiner's SS Corps, to Oranienbaum, Russia in Army Group North's sector. The corps was deployed to the area near Oranienbaum as part of the 18th Army...
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    Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
    Mecklenburg-Strelitz and from 1918 head of the Grand Ducal House. He was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, a grandson of Grand Duke Georg of Mecklenburg-Strelitz via his second...
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    against Denmark, Russia's traditional ally against Sweden. In July 1762, barely six months after becoming emperor, Peter lingered in Oranienbaum with his Holstein-born...
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    Igor Stravinsky (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    and a series of lectures. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia—a town now called Lomonosov, about thirty miles (fifty kilometers)...
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    Oranienbaum (German pronunciation: [oˈʁaːni̯ənˌbaʊ̯m] ) is a former town and a former municipality in the district of Wittenberg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany...
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    Rococo (section Russia)
    von Lespilliez (1765 – 1770) Golden Cabinet of the Chinese Palace, Oranienbaum, Russia, built by Antonio Rinaldi for Catherine the Great (1762 – 1778) Johann...
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    used in the land defence of Leningrad. The ship herself was docked in Oranienbaum port, and was repeatedly shelled and bombed. On 30 September 1941, she...
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    Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, at Oranienbaum, Russia. He would never marry nor have issue, but lived much of his life in Russia and managed to flee shortly...
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    The Oranienbaum Bridgehead (Ораниенбаумский плацдарм in Russian) was an isolated portion of the Leningrad Oblast in Russia, which was retained under Soviet...
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    George, Duke of Mecklenburg (category Russian adoptees)
    Through his father, he was a descendant of Emperor Paul I of Russia. He was born in Oranienbaum as Count George of Carlow; he was the youngest child and only...
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    Vladimir Galitzine (category White Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
    Countess Ekaterina "Katia" Georgievna Carlow (1891–1940). Born at Oranienbaum, Russia, Katia was the eldest daughter of the morganatic marriage of Duke...
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    Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    Russian art of the late 17th-early 18th century. List of Baroque residences It is not to be confused with the Menshikov Palace in Oranienbaum, Russia...
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    Anna Vyrubova (category Court of Nicholas II of Russia)
    Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. Anna Alexandrovna Taneeva was born in Oranienbaum as the daughter of Aleksandr Taneyev, Chief Steward to His Majesty's...
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    display for three-years before traveling to New York City, Moscow and Oranienbaum, Russia. In 2012, the bronze Night Watch sculptures returned to the redesigned...
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    Convent, Catherine Palace, Winter Palace Antonio Rinaldi, architect of Oranienbaum and Tsarskoye Selo, builder of the Marble Palace Carlo Rossi, architect...
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    muted; those in palace gardens in the Holy Roman Empire and in eventually Russian-controlled eastern Europe, are often more extensive and extravagant. Parterre-style...
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    (formerly Oranienbaum), a town in Russia Lomonosov Moscow State University, university in Moscow, Russia Lomonosov Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia Lomonosov...
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    builds a summer version of the "Russian mountain" slide, featuring sleds with wheels, at her estate in Oranienbaum, Russia near St. Petersburg. Roller coaster...
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    Vienna. The Imperial Porcelain Manufacture was founded in 1744 in Oranienbaum, Russia. It was based on the invention of porcelain by D. I. Winogradow (independent...
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  • Anton Lembit Soans (September 17, 1885 Oranienbaum, Russia – November 26, 1966 Tallinn, Estonia) was an Estonian architect, urban planner and lecturer...
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    (Kolomenskoye, Tsaritsyno) and Saint Petersburg (Peterhof, Strelna, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, Pavlovsk Palace, Tsarskoye Selo). Moscow contains Soviet-era...
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    Petrine Baroque (category Baroque architecture in Russia)
    Petrine Baroque (Russian: Петровское барокко) is a style of 17th and 18th century Baroque architecture and decoration favoured by Peter the Great and...
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    (Kolomenskoye, Tsaritsyno) and Saint Petersburg (Peterhof, Strelna, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, Pavlovsk Palace, Tsarskoye Selo). Moscow contains a great...
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    Tsarskoe Selo and Oranienbaum. The first such wheeled ride was brought to Paris in 1804 under the name Les Montagnes Russes (French for "Russian Mountains")...
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    Konstantin Somov (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    the academy. Somov and Benois spent the summer of 1896 at a dacha near Oranienbaum, in the village of Martyshkino. The landscapes and sketches he created...
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    aimed at forcing the German 18th Army back from its positions near Oranienbaum. On the third day of the offensive, the Soviets broke through German...
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