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Alms-houses (entry)
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Benois L.N. (1856-1928), architect
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Bianki V.V. (1894-1959), writer
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Chapygin A.P. (1870-1937), writer
CHAPYGIN Alexey Pavlovich (1870-1937, Leningrad), writer. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1883, worked as an apprentice in painting shops. He had little formal education
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Gordeev F.G., (1744-1810), sculptor
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Grimm D.I., Grimm G.D., Grimm G.G., architects
GRIMMS, a dynasty of architects, theorists, art historians and teachers. David Ivanovich Grimm (1823, St. Petersburg - 1898), architect, representative of Eclecticism, master of the Russo-Byzantine style, historian of Caucasian Architecture
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Ivanov А.А., (1806-1858), Artist
IVANOV Alexander Andreevich (1806, St. Petersburg - 1858) artist. He studied at the Academy of Arts in 1817-28 under his father А. I. Ivanov and А. Е. Egorov; a member of the Academy from 1836
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Lines of Vasilievsky Island (entry)
LINES Of VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, the historical name of a number of parallel streets that intersect Vasilievsky Island from the south to the north: First to Twenty-Ninth Lines, Birzhevaya Line, Kozhevennaya Line, Kosaya Line, Mendeleevskaya Line
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Ostroumova-Lebedeva A.P., (1871-1955), Artist
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Roerich Art School
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Russian Theatre for Tragedy and Comedy
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Sankt Peterburgskie Vedomosti (St. Petersburg Gazette), newspaper
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Shishmarev V.F., (1875-1957), philologist
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Tolstoy F.P., (1783-1873), sculptor
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