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Military Gallery of the Winter Palace
Portrait gallery in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg, Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Military Gallery (Russian: Военная галерея) is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812. The portraits were painted by George Dawe and his Russian assistants Alexander Polyakov (1801–1835), a serf, and Wilhelm August Golicke.
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