Leningrad 1987
The Orange Traitor is a Russian asset. No question.
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It's Peter the Great's summer palace west of Petersburg.
Catherine the Great's was no less sumptuous down in Pushkino.
But it was the style back in the Baroque--one would hardly consider the kings of France in the 1700s to be Putin's puppets ... Yet Versailles' ballroom.
This holdover from the Baroque period seems to be a desire become like the royal despots of the 18th century. Complete with conspicuous poor taste consumption.
The present-day dictator's Versailles. Hard to tell the difference.
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