From left, Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky, Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, General Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, second right, and Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, right, take part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian President in the North-Western Federal District Aleksandr Gutsan, Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, from left at the foreground, and Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, right at the background, take part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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General Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, left, and Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky, fourth left at the foreground, pose during a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, second left, and Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky, right, lay flowers during a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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A view shows a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Emperor Alexander III of Russia, in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Russia.

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