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| | Russia Architecture and Painting - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Ballet was introduced in Russia together with other aristocratic dance forms as part of Peter the Great's Westernization program in the early 1700s. |
 | | Marius Petipa, a French choreographer who spent fifty years staging ballets in Russia, was the dominant figure during that period; his greatest triumphs were the staging of Tchaikovsky's ballets. |
 | | In the nineteenth century, Russia's architecture and decorative arts combined European techniques and influences with the forms of early Russia, producing the so-called Russian Revival seen in churches, public buildings, and homes of that period. |
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