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Muller G. F., (1705-83), Ethnographer, Historian
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Municipal Districts
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Municipal Institutions Buildings (entry)
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Municipal Reform of 1870
MUNICIPAL REFORM OF 1870, reorganisation of local power structures as part of the Great Reforms of the 1860s-70s. According to City Regulations approved on 16 June 1870, an All-Estate City Duma was established with two executive bodies
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Munnich B. K. (1683-1767), Engineer, Governor General 1728-34
MUNNICH Christofor Antonovich (Burchard Kristoff) (1683-1767, St. Petersburg), Count (1728), statesman and military figure, General Field Marshal (1732). He was German by birth, came to Russian service in 1721
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Munz O.R. (1871-1942), architect
MUNZ Oskar Rudolfovich (1871-1942, Leningrad), architect, professor, architecture theorist. From the family of the Consul General of the Netherlands. Resided in St. Petersburg from 1889. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1896)
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Muravyev A.N. (1806-1874), theological writer
MURAVYEV Andrey Nikolaevich (1806-74), spiritual writer, playwright and poet, honorary member of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1832), chamberlain (1836). He received a home education
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Muravyev M.N. (1757-1807), poet
MURAVYEV Mikhail Nikitich (1757-1807, St. Petersburg), writer, statesman, Privy Councilor (1800), Fellow of the Russian Academy (1804). Father of two Decembrists, N.M. Muravyev and A.M. Muravyev
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Muravyev-Apostol S.I. (1795-1826), decembrist
MURAVYEV-APOSTOL Sergey Ivanovich (1795, St. Petersburg - 1826), Decembrist, Lieutenant Colonel (1820). He was born in the house of Archpriest A.A. Samborsky (not preserved)
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Murino
MURINO, a rural settlement (and former village) on Toksovskoe Freeway, 0.5 km from the city borders, adjoining the north-east outskirts of St. Petersburg. The Murinsky Stream, railway station in St
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Murinsky Stream
MURINSKY STREAM, a water course in the north of St. Petersburg and a tributary to the Okhta River. The name comes from the village of Murino. The stream heads from Sosnovka Park
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Muruzi House
MURUZI HOUSE (27/24 Liteiny Avenue), an architectural monument, five-storied apartment house, constructed in 1874-1877 (architect A.K. Serebryakov with the assistance of P.I. Shestov and N.V. Sultanov) and belonging to Prince A.D. Muruzi (1807-1880)
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Murzinka
MURZINKA, a river in the north-east of St. Petersburg. In the 1720s, it was named after a country house of the same name. The length is about five kilometres, the width varies from one to three kilometres, at its mouth up
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Murzinka, river
MURZINKA, a locality enclosed by Zaporozhskaya Street, the Neva River, the Murzinka River and the railway line linking Obukhovo and Rybatskoe. The name originates from the grange (later to become a village) of Murzinka, which belonged to A.I
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Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkammer) (MAE) (3 University Embankment)
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Museum of Bread
MUSEUM OF BREAD (73 Ligovsky Avenue) is the only Russian museum and the 13th museum in the world dedicated to the history of bread-making. The museum was established on 5 November 1988 as a branch museum of bread-making
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Museum of Circus Art
MUSEUM OF CIRCUS ART was the Museum of Circus and Variety Art before 1965. It is the first ever and the only Russian museum of this kind. The museum is located at 3 Fontanka River Embankment
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Museum of City Sculpture
MUSEUM OF CITY SCULPTURE, State Museum of City Sculpture (STCS) (179/2 Nevsky Prospect) was organised in 1939 with the aim to keep records, provide protection and carry out restoration of major monuments
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Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts
MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ARTS, St. Petersburg Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of Mukhina Academy of Arts and Design (13-15 Solyanoy Lane), founded in 1878 in Baron Stieglitz Academy of Technical Drawing
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Museum of History of Political Police
MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF POLITICAL POLICE (6 Admiralty Avenue /2 Gorokhovaya Street), was founded in 1974 as F. E. Dzerzhinsky’s memorial study and in 1975 became a branch of the Museum of the Great October Socialist Revolution (see Museum of Russian
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Museum of History of Religion
MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF RELIGION (14/5 Pochtamtskaya Street) is the only institution of such kind in the country. The museum dates back to the antireligious exhibition arranged in the halls of the Winter Palace in 1930
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Museum of History of Revolutionary Democratic Movement of the 1880-1890s
MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT Of The 1880-1890s (7 Bolshoy Kazachy Lane) was established in 1992 on basis of Lenin Memorial Museum Flat which had existed since 1938. V. I
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Museum of History of the Press
ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF THE PRESS (32/2 Moika River Embankment), a branch of the Museum of St. Petersburg History. The Museum was opened 25.1.1984 as Lenin and Pravda Museum in the premises which from 5(18) March to 5(18) July 1917
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Museum of Hygiene
MUSEUM OF HYGIENE of the Medical Prophylaxis Centre of the Committee for Health Protection of the Administration of St. Petersburg (25 Italianskaya Street) was established in 1919 as the Museum of Health Protection
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Museum of Meteorology
MUSEUM OF METEOROLOGY of Voeykov Central Physical Observatory (7 Karbyshev Street), goes back to the collection of equipment and tools, which emerged along with the foundation of the Central Physical Observatory (1848)
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Museum of Music
MUSEUM OF MUSIC (34 Fontanka River Embankment) is a branch of the Museum of Theatre and Music Art. The Museum of Music is housed in Sheremetev Palace which was given to the museum in 1990
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Museum of Old Petersburg
MUSEUM OF OLD PETERSBURG, founded in October 1907, attached to the Society of Architects and Artists. A. N. Benois, the first director of the museum, was simultaneously at the head of a special commission for studying and describing St
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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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Museum of Russian Vodka
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN VODKA situated at 5 Konnogvardeysky Boulevard, private museum. The first Russian museum in its kind, it was opened in May 2001 on the initiative of S. A. Chentsov and R. M. Shevyakov
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Museum of the Academy of Arts
MUSEUM OF THE ACADEMY OF ARTS, a science and research museum (17 University Embankment), Russia's oldest art museum, founded by I. I. Shuvalov in 1757 as a collection of samples for the students of drawing and sculpture classes at the Academy of
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