"Almost all the panes in the Winter Palace windows facing Palace
Square and the Admiralty have been shattered. The boarding up done in
the summer season is torn away. The windows on the facades acing onto
the Great Courtyard have the same kind of damage… In the other Hermitage
buildings panes have been blown out and the plywood patches torn away
in 97 places."
From a report on the damage
to the museum buildings
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