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Exhibition in Versailles about Peter the Great attracts a record number of visitors

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Exhibition in Versailles about Peter the Great attracts a record number of visitors


03.10.2017

Flickr/NinaraPeter the Great. A tsar in France. 1717 exposition in Palace of Verseilles opened by French and Russian Presidents at the end of May set a record on number of visitors of all exhibitions ever conducted in the famous Palace, RIA Novosti informs. Specialists of Verseilles Palace museum have claimed that more than 275 thousand people attended the exhibition over four months of its existence.

The exposition was dedicated to three hundred’s anniversary of Peter the Great’s trip to France. Around two hundred unique items were exhibited including the Emperor’s suite, clothes and books from his library provided by the State Hermitage and Library of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Press-service of Russian Embassy in France expressed satisfaction that citizens of France and tourists showed keen interest to the exhibition, Russian history and culture.

It should be reminded that Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the exhibition in Verseilles during his official visit to France at the end of May together with freshly elected French President Emmanuel Macron and he presented the museum with a copy of The Reims Gospel.

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