General Staff building designed by Carlo Rossi was erected between 1819 and 1829 to house the General Staff and two government ministries – finance and foreign affairs. The imposing edifice designed in the form of semicircle fronts a large square before the Winter Palace (Palace Square). In the center of the almost six-hundred-meters long façade is a triumphal arch, a monument to the victory of
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