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                                                                                                  Meltzer Roman (Robert-Friedrich) Fedorovich
                                                      
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                                                        Meltzer R.-F. (1860-1943), architect 
                                                                           
                         
                        MELTZER Roman Fedorovich (Robert Friedrich) (1860, St. Petersburg - 1943), architect, artist, furniture designer. He was a descendant of a Russian-German family. From 1878, worked in his father's company F. Meltzer and Co
                                             
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                                                        Alexander Palace (Pushkin) 
                                                                           
                         
                        ALEXANDER PALACE (Pushkin), an architectural monument in Neoclassical style; constructed in 1792-96 (architect G. Quarenghi); located on the territory of the Alexander Park
                                             
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                                                        Angliiskaya Embankment 
                                                                           
                         
                        ANGLIISKAYA EMBANKMENT, from 1738 - Beregovaya Nizhnaya Embankment Street, in the mid-to-late 18th century - Isaakievskaya Embankment, Galernaya Embankment, and Anglinskaya Embankment, from 1800s - Angliiskaya Embankment
                                             
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                                                        Art Nouveau 
                                                                           
                         
                        ART NOUVEAU (from the French for "new art"), the style in architecture and art of the late19th - early 20th centuries. In St. Petersburg, it developed from the end of 1890s through to the early 1910s
                                             
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                                                        Bekhterev Psycho-neurological Research Institute, The St. Petersburg 
                                                                           
                         
                        BEKHTEREV PSYCHO-NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, St. Petersburg, located at 3 Bekhtereva Street, was established in 1907 and opened in 1908 by V. M. Bekhterev as a scientific research and educational institution: two initial courses consisted of
                                             
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                                                        Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace 
                                                                           
                         
                        BELOSELSKY-BELOZERSKY PALACE (41 Nevsky Prospect), an architectural monument of the Eclectic style. Reconstructed from an 18th century Neoclassical residence in 1799-1800 for Princess A.G. Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya (architect F.I. Demertsov)
                                             
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                                                        "Brick Style" 
                                                                           
                         
                        "BRICK STYLE". The term used in Russian art-historical literature for a so-called rational trend in architecture from the second half of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries
                                             
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                                                        Deviatogo Yanvarya Children Park 
                                                                           
                         
                        DEVIATOGO YANVARYA CHILDREN PARK (20 Stachek Avenue) is located between Shvetsov Street, Marshal Govorov Street, Tikhomirskaya Street and Stachek Avenue. It consists of 10
                                             
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                                                        Furshtatskaya Street 
                                                                           
                         
                        FURSHTATSKAYA STREET, from Liteiny Avenue to Potemkinskaya Street. The street was laid in the 18th century next to Liteiny Court and named Third Artilleryskaya Street, to adopt the name Furshtatskaya (Furshtadtskaya) Street in 1806 only
                                             
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                                                        Grand Princes' Palaces and Mansions (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        GRAND PRINCES' PALACES AND MANSIONS, St. Petersburg buildings, specially built or acquired for members of the Imperial family - children and grandchildren of the Emperor (except for the eldest son, the successor to a throne
                                             
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                                                        Grilles (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        GRILLES. St. Petersburg boasts a number of unique metal grilles, created in the course of three centuries. Wrought grilles of bars with (sometimes gilded) decorative figures made from flat iron bars (the grille of the Ekaterininsky (Catherine)
                                             
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                                                        Kamenny Island, ensemble 
                                                                           
                         
                        KAMENNY ISLAND (in 1920-89 - Trudyashchikhsya Island), in the north-west part of the Neva river delta, located between the Bolshaya Nevka River to the north and the Malaya Nevka River to the south, the Krestovka River lies to the east
                                             
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                                                        Kontan Restaurant 
                                                                           
                         
                        KONTAN. A restaurant opened on 25 August 1885 in the Rossia Hotel (58 Moika River Embankment), situated at the far end of the courtyard, opening onto the Moika River. The restaurant was named after its owner, A.S. Kontan
                                             
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                                                        Kschessinska Mansion 
                                                                           
                         
                        KSCHESSINSKA MANSION (2 Kuybysheva Street /1 Kronverksky Avenue), a modernist architectural monument. The building was constructed in 1904-06 (architect. A. I. von Gogen) for ballet dancer M.F. Kschessinska
                                             
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                                                        Kuybysheva Street 
                                                                           
                         
                        KUYBYSHEVA STREET (until 1918, Bolshaya Dvoryanskaya Street; until 1935, 1st Derevenskoy Bednoty Street), located between Troitskaya Square and Petrogradskaya Embankment, on the Petrogradskaya Side. The street was named after Soviet statesman V.V
                                             
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                                                        Lesnoy Avenue 
                                                                           
                         
                        LESNOY AVENUE, from Akademika Lebedeva Street to Institutsky Lane, joining the Finlyandsky Railway Station with the Lesnoy District. The street was laid in the 19th century; until 1913, the avenue
                                             
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                                                        Museum of Russian Political History 
                                                                           
                         
                        MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL HISTORY (2-4 Kuybysheva Street) was established in 1919 as the Museum of the Revolution. The Museum of the Revolution was housed in the Winter Palace. In 1955, the mansion of Kschessinska and the adjacent mansion of V. E
                                             
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                                                        Nobel Family, entrepreneurs 
                                                                           
                         
                        NOBEL FAMILY, entrepreneurs from Sweden. Emmanuel Nobel (1801-72), a professor of descriptive geometry and engineering at Stockholm Technological Institute, came to Russia in 1837, and his family moved to St. Petersburg in 1842
                                             
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                                                        People's Houses (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        PEOPLE'S HOUSES, cultural and educational institutions of a club nature, meant mainly for workers and craftspeople. They were created in St. Petersburg from the early 1880s, as a rule, in the suburbs, subsidized by the Municipal Duma
                                             
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                                                        The Alms-House of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna for disabled soldiers in the Babolovsky Park. 
                                                                           
                         
                        The idea of creating an alms-house for disabled soldiers who got  injures during the Russo-Japanese War belonged to Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. A nice plot of the Babolovsky Park on the meadow at the Crimea Column was allotted for construction of
                                             
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                                                        V.V. Gudovich’s House (with a sevice wing, garden and fence) 
                                                                           
                         
                        The rich house of the Marshal of the Nobility Count V.V. Gudovich was faced the Catherine Park. It  was built in the Modernist style in 1905-1906 to the design of  S.A. Danini and consolidated some historic houses and grounds
                                             
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                                                        Workers' Towns (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        WORKERS' TOWNS. Building complexes which combined housing, educational and service institutions. The construction of workers' towns in Russia started in the 1900s on the initiative of the Association for the Organisation and Improvement of Housing
                                             
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                                                        Wreden Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics 
                                                                           
                         
                        WREDEN INSTITUTE OF TRAUMATOLOGY AND ORTHOPAEDICS, Russian Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics situated at 8 Akademika Baykova Street. It was founded as the Petersburg Orthopaedic Institute with the sponsorship of Empress Alexandra
                                             
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