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Empress Catherine II decided to install a clock on the southern facade of the Winter Palace as early as 1768, but she only got her wish 28 years later, in 1796, when the clock mechanism was brought from the Chesme wayside palace to St Petersburg. That tower clock served Petersburgers for over 40 years, until it perished in the fire that engulfed the palace in 1837. The present-day clock was made to order by the master clock-maker A. Helfer in 1839. |
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