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gem-cutting and the manufacture of agricultural implements are carried on. The palace has undergone alterations and additions, e.g. by Catharine II., but retains a distinct Petrine See also:

STAMP (from " to stamp," to strike or tread heavily, hence to impress, O. Eng. stempen, Du. stampen, Ger. stampfen, whence, O. Fr. estamper, mod. etamper)

stamp. It is builton a height 50 ft. above the See also:

sea, and contains portraits of the See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian imperial See also:

FAMILY

family and other pictures. A statue of Peter the Great was set up near the palace in 1883, and one of See also:

Francis I. of See also:

France in 1896, a See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift from the town of See also:

Havre to See also:

Nicholas II. Peterhof is connected with See also:

ORANIENBAUM

Oranienbaum on the See also:

west and with Stryelna on the See also:

east by See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of gardens and villas.

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