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Pumpyansky L.V. (1891-1940), literary critic
PUMPYANSKY Lev Vasilievich [before conversion to Orthodoxy (1911) - Pumpyan Leib Meerovich] (1891-1940, Leningrad), literary critic. In 1912-16, studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg (Petrograd) University
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Punin N.N., (1888-1953), art historian
PUNIN Nikolay Nikolaevich (1888-1953), art theorist, historian, and museum worker. He lived in Pavlovsk and Tsarskoe Selo from the early 1900s. In 1907-14, he studied at the law faculty and faculty of history and philosophy of Petersburg University
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Puppet Theatres (entry)
PUPPET THEATRES. The first professional State Puppet Theatre was Petrograd Puppet Theatre directed by L. V. Shaporina-Yakovleva (founded in 1918, opened in 1919, in 1923-24 part of the Young People's Theatre at 33 Mokhovaya Street)
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Purishkevich V. M. (1870-1920), public and political figure
PURISHKEVICH Vladimir Mitrofanovich (1870-1920) was a public figure, publicist, and Full State Counsellor (1912). He graduated from the Department of Classics at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Novorossiisk University (Odessa, 1895)
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Pushkarev I.I. (1808-1848), Historian, Regional Ethnographer
PUSHKAREV Ivan Ilyich (1803-1848, St. Petersburg), historian, statistician, regional ethnographer. Graduated from the Gymnasium in Simbirsk. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1834. Pushkarev served as a clerk at the Main Engineers College
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Pushkarev V.A. (1915-2002), art historian, museum worker
PUSHKAREV Vasily Alexeevich (1915-2002), art historian, museum worker, honoured worker of arts of the Russian Federation (1994), honorary member of the Academy of Arts (2002)
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Pushkarskaya Bolshaya Street
PUSHKARSKAYA BOLSHAYA STREET (until 1798 - Malaya Ofitserskaya Street), between Syezzhinskaya Street and Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, on Petrogradskaya Side. The road appeared in the first third of the 18th century
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Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich (1799-1837), poet
PUSHKIN Alexander Sergeevich (1799-1837, St. Petersburg), poet, prose writer, playwright, historian, journalist. Studied at the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoe Selo (1811-17; memorial plaque; presently a memorial museum)
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Pushkin Centre
PUSHKIN CENTRE, State Pushkin Theatre Centre in St. Petersburg (41 Fontanka River Embankment), theatre and publishing organisation established in 1992 by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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Pushkin Children's Library, central, municipal
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY, central, municipal, named after Alexander Pushkin, subordinated to the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg Administration (33 Bolshaya Morskaya Street), founded in 1921
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Pushkin Dacha Museum
PUSHKIN DACHA MUSEUM (Pushkin Town, 2 Pushkinskaya Street) is a branch of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum. It was established in 1958 in the one-storied wooden building, which had earlier belonged to Court Valet Y
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Pushkin Memorial Museum Apartment
PUSHKIN MEMORIAL MUSEUM APARTMENT (12 Moika River Embankment) is a branch of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum. The museum was established in 1925-27 in the flat where the poet spent the last four months of his life from September 1836
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Pushkin Society
PUSHKIN SOCIETY based on the Society of Friends of the State Museum and Reserve Pushkin Corner in 1931 in order to study and popularise Russian classical literature of the 19th century, especially Alexander Pushkin's works
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Pushkin, town
PUSHKIN, a town and municipal unit situated south of Saint Petersburg. Known until 1918 as Tsarskoe Selo, and in 1918-37 as Detskoe Selo. As of 2002, population totalled approximately 95,000 inhabitants
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Pushkinskaya Street
PUSHKINSKAYA STREET (until 1881 Novy Avenue, Kompaneiskaya Street), between Nevsky Prospect and Kuznechny Lane. It was named after Alexander Pushkin. The street was built in 1874 and actually is a creation of architect P.Y
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Pushkinsky District
PUSHKINSKY DISTRICT, an administrative and territorial unit of St. Petersburg (with the territorial administration situated in the town of Pushkin, at 24 Oktyabrsky Boulevard)
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Putilov N.I., (1820-1880), entrepreneur
PUTILOV Nikolay Ivanovich (1820-1880, St. Petersburg), entrepreneur, engineer. After he completed Officer’s Classes at the Naval School in 1840, he worked as a lecturer and served in the Navy Department until his resignation in 1857
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Putilov А.I. (1867-after 1837), entrepreneur
PUTILOV Alexey Ivanovich (1867 - after 1937), statesman, entrepreneur, financier, Actual Civil Counsellor. Graduating from St. Petersburg University with a law degree in 1889, he served in the Ministry of Finance from 1890
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Pylyaev M.I. (1842-1899), expert of regional ethnography
PYLYAEV Mikhail Ivanovich (1842, St. Petersburg - 1899, the same city) writer and journalist. He received no systematic education, but attended lectures at Kharkov University and abroad
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Pypin A.N., (1833-1904), literary historian
PYPIN Alexander Nikolaevich (1833-1904), specialist in study of literature, ethnographer, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1898). He was a cousin of N.G. Chernyshevsky
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Quarenghi G. (1744-1817), architect
QUARENGHI Giacomo (1744-1817), architect, representative of Neoclassicism. Native of Italy. From 1761 (according to the other data sources, from 1763) studied painting and architecture in Rome. At the end of 1779, he came to St
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Quarters (general article)
QUARTERS, buildings for housing and accommodation of large numbers of people (military personnel, workers belonging to specific enterprises, etc.) spacious (accommodating 50-500 men) common sleeping quarters. Workers' quarters were built in St
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Quisisana Restaurants
QUISISANA, the name of two restaurants located on Nevsky Prospect in the early 20th century. The first one was opened at 43 Nevsky Prospect in the early 1900s by entrepreneur Sartori on the first floor of the apartment building belonging to Grand
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Rachau K.K., (1830-1880), architect
RACHAU Karl Karlovich (1830 - 1880, St. Petersburg), architect, one of the prominent representatives of St. Petersburg Eclectism, master of interiors, accentuating small forms and an architectural scholar
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Radio (entry)
RADIO. The first radio transmitter (lightning detector) was demonstrated by А. S. Popov in 1895 at St. Petersburg University. In 1900 Russia's first radio workshop started operations in Kronstadt
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Radishchev A.N. (1749-1802), writer
RADISHCHEV Alexander Nikolaevich (1749-1802, St. Petersburg), writer, court counsellor (1780). In 1762-66 he was educated in the Page Corps. For the next five years he studied at Leipzig University
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Radishcheva Street
RADISHCHEVA STREET (until 1858 - Gospitalnaya Street, until 1935 - Preobrazhenskaya Street, renamed after A.N. Radishchev), between Zhukovskogo Street and Kirochnaya Street
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Radisson SAS Royal Hotel
RADISSON SAS ROYAL HOTEL (49 Nevsky Prospect / 2 Vladimirsky Avenue). Opened on 23 August 2001. In the 1730s, a wooden building on a stone foundation was constructed on this land plot
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Radlov Sergey Ernestovich (1892-1958), director
RADLOV Sergey Ernestovich (1892-1958), director, pedagogue, Honoured Worker of the Arts of RSFSR (1940). He graduated from the history and philosophy department of the St. Petersburg University (1916)
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Rail Transport Museum
RAIL TRANSPORT MUSEUM, Central Rail Transport Museum of the Railway Ministry of the Russian Federation (50 Sadovaya Street), Russia's first technology history museum and one of the world's oldest rail transport museums
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