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refused to travel to
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The bronze sculptural group topping off the monument depicts a meeting of
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did not have even a fraction of the budget needed to carry out such impressively large-scale endeavour, so a public contest for a new project was called. After the contest was declared void, Prime
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The commemoration of the 400th anniversary utterly failed; it did not even take place on 12 October as it was intended in the first place. Queen regent
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