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Persons / Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich musician
Shostakovich D.D., (1906-1975), composer

SHOSTAKOVICH Dmitry Dmitrievich (1906, St. Petersburg. - 1975), composer, pianist, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1954), Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Honorary Doctor of Oxford (1958) and of many other foreign universities and academies

1930

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First")
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

Assembly of Nobility

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Choreographic Miniatures, ballet theatre

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Composers, The Union of

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Eliasberg K.I., (1907-1978), conductor

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From the Avant-garde to today, festival

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Gardin V.R., (1877-1965), actor and director

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Kamennoostrovsky Avenue

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Kaplan Anatoly Lvovich (1903-1980), artist

KAPLAN Anatoly Lvovich (1903-1980, Leningrad), graphic artist. From 1922 he lived in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), and studied in the Academy of Arts (1922-27) under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Arkady Rylov and in the experimental lithographic workshop of

Lopukhov F.V., (1886-1973), choreographer

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Mariinsky Theatre

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Mravinsky Е.А., (1903-1988), conductor

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Music Hall

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Mussorgsky Opera and Ballet Theatre

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Petersburg Musical Spring, festival

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Philharmonic named after D.D. Shostakovich

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Primorskoe Freeway

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Pushkarskaya Bolshaya Street

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Radio (entry)

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Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory

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Sollertinsky I.I., (1902-1944), art historian

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St. Petersburg Opera, the chamber musical theatre

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Sviridov G.V., (1915-1998), composer

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Symbols of St. Petersburg

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White Nights, festival

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