Imperial Splendour
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Барбара Картленд. Imperial Splendour
Author’s Note
Chapter One ~ 1812
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
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The Duke of Welminster walked across the room to pull back the curtains from the window and stare out at the Neva.
In the pale sunlight, which later would deepen to a red heat, the river, one of the shortest in the world, was shimmering on the water.
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He had been quite prepared for magnificence for the stories of St. Petersburg’s treasures and the splendour of its buildings had been told and retold in London.
It had been the extravagant Empress Elizabeth who had pulled down the original wooden Winter Palace built by Peter the Great and her architect, Rastrelle, in eight years covered an area of two million square feet with over one thousand rooms and one hundred staircases.
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