Building Conversions
According to some sources, original color of the walls was orange. Paul I started changing the Bazhenov's appearance of the building: upon his orders, the statue of Minerva (or Mars, symbolizing the victories of the reign of his mother) crowning the dome, was removed from it.
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“Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this. To die like this. I was building a house.
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