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🪷 One of the many #Antinomania copies of #Antinous made for European aristocrats: This gilded bronze Capitoline Antinous statue at the Peterhof in St. Petersburg Russia is by the master founder Vasily Petrovich Ekimov (1758-1837). It was severely damaged in WWI and restored. 🪷