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TIL The Saint Petersburg Sphinxes are about 3500 years old, Andrei Muravyov, who in 1830 was going on a pilgrimage to holy places. Ancient sculptures made him so impressed that he immediately sent a letter to the Russian Ambassador, in which he proposed to acquire them.

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