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and other members of the nobility. It offered visitors leaving the building a panorama of
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The church is a beige building of hard sandstone, still visible everywhere on the outside. The outer layout of the church is a square with an extended arc in the north. The building is "crowned" with five fiery-gilt domes, with the four smaller ones surrounding the large central dome to the
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and patron saint of the deceased princess. Shortly afterwards, the coffin containing the Grand
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