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- New Jerusalem Bishops’ Residence — She ordered and financed the residence as compensation after the archbishop’s wrongful prosecution.
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- Александровский дворец
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- Государственный Эрмитаж
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- Дворец Бобринских — The palace’s family history and collections commemorated the empress from whom the Bobrinsky line secretly descended.
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- Здание Вольного экономического общества — Established/patronised the Free Economic Society (1765), Russia’s first learned NGO; she approved the charter, motto and funding for its Petersburg premises.
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- Зимний дворец — Imperial residence; began the Hermitage art collections in the Winter Palace.
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- Летний сад — Commissioned Felten’s famous Neva-side iron grille (1770s–84); personally took Smolny Institute pupils on a public promenade here in 1773.
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- Медный всадник — Commissioned Falconet’s Bronze Horseman monument to Peter I.
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- Мраморный дворец — Commissioned the Marble Palace as a gift for Grigory Orlov.
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- Петропавловский собор
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- Смольный институт — Founded the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens (Smolny Institute) by decree 16 May 1764 — Europe’s first state girls’ school; later housed in Quarenghi’s building.
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- Таврический дворец — Commissioned the Tauride Palace for Grigory Potemkin.
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- Таврический сад — Park of Tauride Palace (already linked); after Potemkin’s death Catherine bought the palace and stayed there in spring/autumn to keep his memory.
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- Чесменская церковь — Commissioned the Chesme Church to mark the Chesma victory.
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- Эрмитажный театр