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История переименований:
Zhukovskogo St.
(as of July 10, 1902)
Malaya Italyanskaya St.
(March 5, 1871 – July 10, 1902 )
Italyanskaya St.
(1751 - March 5, 1871)
Sadovaya Italyanskaya St.
(1776 - 1798)
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Chekhova Street
CHEKHOVA STREET, known as Ertelev Lane until 1923, between Zhukovskogo Street and Nekrasova Street. The street was laid in the second half of the 18th century. Its original name was derived from the last name of a house-owner
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Commercial Colleges (Entry)
COMMERCIAL COLLEGES, institutions of intermediate education with general and special commercial educational courses. The first Russian commercial college was established in Moscow in 1772 by P. A. Demidov. It was transferred to St
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Communal Apartments
COMMUNAL APARTMENTS. The word combination "communal apartments" is a product of the Soviet epoch. However, first communal apartments appeared in the early 18th century, when rental lodging was partitioned by the landlords into "corners"
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Fridays, Y. P. Polonsky's Fridays, K. K. Sluchevsky's Fridays
FRIDAYS, Y. P. Polonsky's Fridays and K. K. Sluchevsky's Fridays. Y. P. Polonsky's Literary and Art circle was founded in St. Petersburg in the 1860s, and was known as Polonsky's Friday in St. Petersburg
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Insurance companies (entry)
INSURANCE COMPANIES, financial and credit institutions, which deal with various kinds of insurance (life, real estate, personal estate insurance, etc.), the basic principle of which consists in compensating damages incurred by one person through
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Kosyakov Vas. A., Kosyakov Vl. A., Kosyakov G.A., architects
KOSYAKOV family, architects, brothers, masters of Neo-Russian and Neoclassical styles. Vasily Antonovich Kosyakov (1862, St. Petersburg - 1921, Petrograd), graduated from the Civil Engineers' Institute (1885); from 1900
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Kurochkin V. S. (1831-1875), poet, journalist
KUROCHKIN Vasily Stepanovich (1831 - 1875, St. Petersburg), poet, translator, essayist, journalist and public figure. Graduate of the First Cadet Corps, and the Noble's Regiment (1849)
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Mayakovsky V.V. (1893-1930), poet
MAYAKOVSKY Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930), poet. Studied at Kutais Gymnasium and in the Moscow School for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He visited St
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Meyerhold V.E., (1874-1940), director
MEYERHOLD Vsevolod Emilievich (Karl Kazimir Teodor Meiergold, before Orthodox christening in 1895) (1874-1940), director, actor, pedagogue, theatre worker, People's Artist of the Republic (1923)
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Pavlenkov F.F. (1839-1900), publisher
PAVLENKOV Florenty Fedorovich (1839-1900), publisher. Graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy (1861), served at the Kiev Arsenal and Bryansk Arsenal. Having resigned, he moved to St. Petersburg in 1865. In 1866, he started publishing
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Political Parties (entry)
POLITICAL PARTIES, groups of people united by political opinions and goals fixed in party documents; possessing certain membership requirements, internal structure and types of activities stated in the regulations; relying on a certain social base
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Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment
PREOBRAZHENSKY LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, the oldest infantry guards regiment. Founded by Peter I in 1683 in the village of Preobrazhenskoe by Moscow (hence the name), raised to a regiment in 1692, received the title of guards in 1700
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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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Rech (The Speech), newspaper
RECH (The Speech), daily newspaper on politics, economics and literature, operated as the central organ of the Constitutional Democratic Party (the Cadets). The paper appeared from February of 1906
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Regiment Settlements (entry)
REGIMENT SETTLEMENTS are places for compact billets of guard regiments inside the city limits in the 18th - early 19th century. They were built in 1739-43 under regular designs specially provided for this purpose (usually the planning included an
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Second-Hand Book Trade (entry)
SECOND-HAND BOOK TRADE or bouquiniste trade (from the French word bouquin - an old book). From the time of the opening of the book trade in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 18th century
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Sluchevsky K.K. (1837-1904), poet
Sluchevsky Konstantin Konstantinovich (1837, St. Petersburg - 1904) poet, staff master. Graduated from the First Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg (1855); he served in the Semenovsky Lifeguard Regiment, resigned in 1860
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Suvorin А.S. (1834-1912), publisher
SUVORIN Alexey Sergeevich (1834-1912, St. Petersburg), publicist, writer, publisher. Suvorin completed special courses of the Noblemen Regiment (1853), and from 1863 when he settled in St
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Toponymy of St. Petersburg
TOPONYMY OF ST. PETERSBURG, a corpus of names of geographical points situated on the territory of St. Petersburg. Names of rivers, islands, and villages located on the city's future territory appeared long before its foundation
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Tramway
TRAMWAY (borrowed into Russian as the word derived from English tram (carriage) and way), a means of city rail transport. Three kinds of tramways are known: horse-drawn (see Horse-tram)
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Vostokov A.H. (1781-1864), philologist
VOSTOKOV Alexander Hristoforovich (real name Ostenek Alexander Voldemar) (1781-1864, St. Petersburg), philologist, paleographer, poet, translator, Member of the Russian Academy (1820), corresponding member (1826) and since 1841 member of St
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Zhukovskogo Street
ZHUKOVSKOGO STREET, running from Liteiny Avenue to Ligovsky Avenue. Previously known as Malaya Italyanskaya Street, the street assumed its present-day name in 1902 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of V.A. Zhukovsky
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Zhukovsky V.A. (1783-1852), poet
ZHUKOVSKY Vasily Andreevich (1783-1852), poet, translator, member of the Russian Academy (1818), member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841; honorary member from 1827), privy counsellor (1841)
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