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Culture news, 02.08.2002 11:30

In State museum - reserve "Pavlovsk" an exhibition devoted to emperor Alexander I is opened.

In State museum - reserve In State museum - reserve "Pavlovsk" on Friday the exhibition, devoted to emperor Alexander I is openned. As Anna Zabel'skaja, the press-secretary of a museum, has informed, many exhibits will be submitted to visitors for the first time. Among them are the metrics about Alexander's birth and also his children's letters to the grandmother - to empress Ekaterina II, the father - to emperor Paul I and mother - empress Maria Fedorovne, signed "Alexasha". Favourite toys of cesarevitch also are a part of an exposition - guns (tiny copies of the real iguns) and the books composed for small Alexander by his grandmother Ekaterina II: children's fairy tales and " The History of the State Russian ".

In total at an exhibition about 500 exhibits from assembly of various museums of St. Petersburg, his(its) suburbs and Moscow will be placed. The exhibition will be prolonged till December, 31.

News source: rosbalt.ru

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