Palace Square - Aleksandrovskaya Kolonna
The Russia House (1990)
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Dante tells Barley about the Russian Revolution and how it started on the square.
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Palace Square is the central city square of St Petersburg. Many historic events took place there, including the Bloody Sunday massacre and parts of the October Revolution of 1917. Between 1918 and 1944, it was known as Uritsky Square. In the centre of the square stands the Alexander Column. The monument was raised after the Russian victory in the war with Napoleon's France. It was designed by Auguste de Montferrand. It is 47.5 metres high.
(source st-petersburg.guide)
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Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer
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Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
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