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Printed from: http://petersburgcity.com/news/city/2002/01/17/chain/ City news, 17.01.2002 19:01 For the city's three-hundredth anniversary...A historical chain enclosure appeared around the monument to Catherine II in the Catherine's Garden. A movable chain, made in the form of a laurel wreath, is composed of ten decorative elements-buds, gradually opening to the centre.The first lost fence was cast in 1862 and appeared in the Catherine's Garden in 1870. The new chain enclosure was revived due to archive materials and old pictures.
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