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On festive occasions and in busy everyday life the ringing
of the Winter Palace clock is the same sort of St Petersburg institution
as the noonday gun fired from the Peter and Paul Fortress. Every quarter
of an hour above Palace Square the voice of the old clock of the imperial
residence, approaching two hundred years in age, is heard. Today the
maintenance of the old clock is the concern of specialists from the
Hermitage. Three times a week someone climbs up and winds the clock
by hand. Hidden from sight, the clock mechanism is in excellent condition
and the tower clock always shows Petersburgers and visitors to the
city the correct time. |
