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| March 01, 2003 | Kettering, Karen L. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This year the city of Saint Petersburg will be celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of its founding. In honor of this momentous anniversary, Hillwood Museum and Gardens is presenting its first temporary exhibition, The Myths of St. Peteraburg: Impresjions of the City fro the Hillwood Collection, which will be on view until December 31. One of Russia's most important cultural centers and the nation's capital from 1712 to 1918, the city is intimately linked to the creation and history of thousands of objects in Hillwood's collections. For this reason the museums board and staff decided that it was imperative to tell the story of Saint Petersburg in a separate space, ...

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