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ACADEMICS' CASE, the accusation of a group of members and research assistants of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR of creating a counter-revolutionary organisation All-National Union of Struggle for the Revival of a Free Russia with the purpose of
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All-Russian Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet Deputies, Second
THE SECOND ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF WORKERS' AND SOLDIERS' SOVIET DEPUTIES, was held at Smolny from 25 to 27 October (7 to 9 November) 1917. Its sitting was delayed on several occasions; from the middle of September until 20 October (2 November)
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Alms-houses (entry)
ALMS-HOUSES, boarding institutions for poor, ill and aged people. The first alms-houses set up in St. Petersburg were attached to churches, the first ones being theHoly Ascension Church in Shpalernaya Street (1713) and St
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Antonov-Ovseenko V.A. (1883-1939), revolutionary, political figure
ANTONOV-OVSEENKO (real name Ovseenko) Vladimir Alexeevich (1883-1938), revolutionary. Studied at Nikolaevsky Military Engineering school of St. Petersburg, in 1901 was sacked for his refusal to swear loyalty
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Antsiferov Award
ANTSIFEROV AWARD, an international prize in honour of N.P. Antsiferov. The prize was founded in 1995 by the initiative of the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of St. Petersburg-Leningrad and the Baltic Humanitarian Fund
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Antsiferov N.P. (1889-1958), historian and regional ethnographer
ANTSIFEROV Nikolay Pavlovich (1889-1958), historian, regional ethnographer and public figure. He moved to St. Petersburg in 1908. Antsiferov graduated from the Department of History and Philology of Petrograd University (1915), a student of I.M
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Assembly of Nobility
ASSEMBLY OF NOBILITY, St. Petersburg provincial corporate social class organisation of St. Petersburg Province nobility, founded on the basis of the Charter of Nobility dated 21 April 1785; its aim was to ensure class unity and rights of nobility
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Assembly of Russian Factory and Plant Workers of St. Petersburg
ASSEMBLY OF RUSSIAN FACTORY AND PLANT WORKERS OF ST. PETERSBURG, one of the first legal mass organizations of workers in Russia. Established on the basis of the Community of Mutual Help of Workers in Mechanized Industry (1902-03) it was one of the
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Avksentyev N. D. (1878-1943), socialist revolutionary
AVKSENTYEV Nikolay Dmitrievich (1878-1943) statesman and publicist. He graduated from a Gymnasium in Penza (1897), and attended the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, in 1899; he was expelled for participating in the student movement
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Babushkin I. V. (1873-1906), revolutionary
BABUSHKIN Ivan Vasilievich (1873-1906), a revolutionary worker. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1883, working as a chore boy at a mixed shop, an apprentice at a torpedo workshop in Kronstadt Port (today
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Bestuzhev A.A. (1797-1837), writer, critic, decembrist
BESTUZHEV (pen name Marlinsky) Alexander Alexanderovich (1797, St. Petersburg - 1837), writer, critic, decembrist, staff-captain (1825). Trained at the Mining Cadet Corps but never graduated (1810-15)
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Bestuzhev-Ryumin M. P. (1801-1826), decembrist
BESTUZHEV-RYUMIN Mikhail Pavlovich (1801-26), Decembrist, Podporuchik (Sub-Lieutenant) of Poltavsky Infantry Regiment in 1824. Educated at home, he made his service in the Kavalergardsky Regiment in 1818-20 and the Semenovsky Life Guard Regiment in
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Blagoev's Group
BLAGOEV'S GROUP (the Party of Russian Social Democrats from 1884, the Petersburg Group of the Party of Russian Social Democrats from 1885), one of the first social-democratic groups in Russia. It was founded by D. Blagoev, N.P. Andreev, G.N
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Boarding House of Education
BOARDING HOUSE OF EDUCATION, Imperial St. Petersburg, charitable establishment. Founded in 1770 on the initiative and plans of I.I. Betskoy to take care of illegitimate children, orphans and children of the poor
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Bobrinsky A. A. (1852-1927), public figure
BOBRINSKY Alexey Alexandrovich (1852, St. Petersburg 1927) Count, statesman and public figure, major land-owner, businessman, archaeologist, historian, senator (1896), Arch-Hoffmeister (1916). He was a son of Count Alexander A. Bobrinsky
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Bolshoy Dom
BOLSHOY DOM (Big House)(4 Liteiny Avenue), the name Leningraders gave to the administrative building where the bodies of Joint State Political Administration Board (OGPU), People's Commissariat of Home Affairs
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Brusnev's Group
BRUSNEV'S GROUP (Central Working Committee, Working Union), one of the first social-democratic organizations in Russia. It was founded in 1889 under the guidance of student M. I. Brusnev
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Case of Pupils of the Lyceum
CASE OF PUPILS OF THE LYCEUM was fabricated by the organs of Joint State Political Administration Board in 1925 against the group of graduates of Alexandrovsky Lyceum who were accused of creating an organization aiming to overthrow the Soviet power
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Charity (entry)
CHARITY, philanthropic activities, aimed at extending aid to the needy and carried out by social and church organisations, state establishments, as well as by private persons for religious, moral and humane reasons (public and private charity)
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Chaykovsky N.V. (1850-1926), revolutionary, political figure
CHAYKOVSKY Nikolay Vasilievich (1850-1926) was a political figure. On graduating from the 7th St. Petersburg Gymnasium (1868) he studied at the Faculty of Natural History of St. Petersburg University
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Chernov V. M. (1873-1952), Socialist Revolutionary
CHERNOV Viktor Mikhailovich (1873-1952) was a political figure, sociologist, and publicist. On graduating from Derpt Gymnasium (1892) he entered the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, and participated in revolutionary circles
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Cherny Peredel, revolutionary organizations
CHERNY PEREDEL (Black Repartition), a revolutionary populist organization that came into existence in the summer of 1879 after the split of Zemlya i Volya. Its founders were G.V. Plekhanov, V.I. Zasulich, L.G. Deutsch, P.B. Axelrod, V.N. Ignatov, O
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Chkheidze N.S. (1864-1926), a revolutionary, chairman of Petrograd Soviet in 1917
CHKHEIDZE Nikolay Semenovich (party pseudonym Carlo) (1864-1926), political figure. After graduating from Kutaisi gymnasia (1887) he entered Novorossiisk University (Odessa), but was soon expelled due to his participation in students' disorders
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Cholera Riot 1831
CHOLERA RIOT 1831, disturbances by ordinary people connected with the appearance of cholera, a formerly unknown disease in St. Petersburg. The central events of the Cholera Revolt occurred on Sennaya Square and at Sennoy Market on 14 February 1831
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City Connoisseurs' Club
CITY CONNOISSEURS' CLUB, a non-governmental organisation, bringing together lovers of St. Petersburg history. The club was established in 1980 on the initiative of I. A. Martynenko, senior consultant of the All-Russian Monument Protection Society, M
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City Hospices
CITY HOSPICES, charitable establishments for accommodating the disabled, beggary and aged. They were opened at the Decree of Empress Catherine II issued on 8 August 1781 in a building bought from the Boarding School of Education and located not far
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Civil Control, Public Association
CIVIL CONTROL (87 Ligovsky Avenue), public human rights organisation. It was initiated in 1992 to provide for the Parliament's and people's control over the activity of secret services
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Clubs (entry)
CLUBS (in the 18th - beginning of the 20th century, also called Meetings), until the beginning of the 20th century they were voluntary corporate or class public institutions for leisure and socializing
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Committee for the Salvation of the Fatherland and the Revolution
COMMITTEE FOR THE SALVATION OF THE FATHERLAND AND THE REVOLUTION, An anti-Bolshevik organisation, established on the night of 26 October (old style: 8 November) 1917
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Constituent Assembly, All-Russian
ALL-RUSSIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, a body of representatives established on the basis of universal suffrage in order to form a government and draft a Constitution for Russia
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