St. Petersburg, Russia

Photo Features • World Hum • 05.27.09 | 10:08 AM ET

REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

Visitors to the Hermitage Museum look at portraits of generals from Russia's 1812 campaign against Napoleon's army

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