Within sight of the Musée d'Art, on the high ground opposite, rise the gilded onion domes of the Russian Church, built in 1863 on the remains of a 16th-century Benedictine priory - at that time isolated on an empty hilltop - with money donated by Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna Constancia, aunt of Queen Victoria and a longtime Geneva resident.
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