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GRIBOYEDOVA CANAL (the Ekaterininsky Canal in 1767-1923) starts from the Moika River at the Field of Mars and flows into the Fontanka River at Malo-Kalinkin Bridge. It is 5 km long and 32 meters wide with water flow of 3.1 - 3.4 m3
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Grigoryev Boris Dmitrievich (1886-1939), artist
GRIGORYEV Boris Dmitrievich (1886-1939), artist. He studied at the Stroganov Art School under Dmitry Shcherbinovsky (1903-07), in the Academy of Arts under Alexander Kiselev and Dmitry Kardovsky (1907-13)
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Grilles (entry)
GRILLES. St. Petersburg boasts a number of unique metal grilles, created in the course of three centuries. Wrought grilles of bars with (sometimes gilded) decorative figures made from flat iron bars (the grille of the Ekaterininsky (Catherine)
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Guards
GUARDS, life guards, elite, privileged military unit. The Russian Guards were established by Peter I in 1700, when the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments gained the title of life guards
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Guards Artillery
GUARDS ARTILLERY, general name for artillery units and formations, consisting of the Guards. The Life Guards of the 1st, 2nd and Horse Artillery Brigades (each of which including 6 batteries with 6-8 pieces in each one)
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Guards Corps Staff
GUARDS CORPS STAFF, the organisational authority of the guards. Set up in the late 18th century as the Chancellery of the Guards Commander, from 1817, known as the Guards General Staff, and from 1828 as the Staff of the Guards Commander
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Guards Posts
GUARDS POSTS, military posts, regularly taken by the guards regiments. In the 18th century Guards sentries patrolled the Streets to control order, guarded public institutions, city gates, state property depositories, etc
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Guide books (entry)
GUIDE BOOKS, reference publications, containing information on the city geography, history, arts etc., aimed both at tourists and Petersburgers. In the 18th century there emerged foreign publications similar to guidebooks: in 1713 an anonymous
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Gumilev L.N., (1912-1992), historian
GUMILEV Lev Nikolaevich (1912, Tsarskoe Selo - 1992, St. Petersburg), orientalist, ethnographer, Ph.D. (Doctor of Historical Sciences, 1961; and Geographical Sciences, defended his thesis in 1974
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Gymnasia (entry)
GYMNASIA, institutions of intermediate general education. In pre-revolutionary Russia they were mainly established with the purpose of training pupils for university and service in state institutions
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Gypsy Choruses (entry)
GYPSY CHORUSES, up to the early 20th century they were called "Moscow Gypsy Choruses" (that is, Russian) in contrast to Hungarian, Spanish, Crimean. Practically all soloists had stage names, their real names having been for the most part lost
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Handicraft (overview)
HANDICRAFT, an important part of St. Petersburg economy in the 18th to the early 20th centuries, started developing soon after the city was founded as craftsmen were coming here from various handicraft centres of the country
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Harbour
HARBOUR is an area in the western part of Vasilievsky Island. Soon after the foundation of St. Petersburg, earthworks and the artillery battery were put up here to protect the entrance to the Bolshaya Neva River
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Heating plants (general article)
HEATING PLANTS (heat electric power plants) are stations generating electricity and providing heat and hot running water to businesses and residential houses. The first attempts of a comprehensive approach to the problem of generating electricity
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Hermitage
HERMITAGE, State Museum (32-38 Dvortsovaya Embankment) is one of the biggest museums in the world, exhibiting art as well as cultural and historical objects. It consists of 5 inter-connected buildings: the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage
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Hermitage Buildings (entry)
HERMITAGE BUILDINGS. Hermitages were compulsory for all large court estates such as Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo built as detached pavilions for confidential meetings from the early 18th century
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Hermitage Theatre
HERMITAGE THEATRE at 32 Dvortsovaya Embankment is a monument of 18th century architecture, is part of the complex of Hermitage buildings. It is the only 18th century theatre hall preserved in St. Petersburg
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Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, Monument to
HEROIC DEFENDERS OF LENINGRAD, MONUMENT TO was opened in the Pobedy Square 9 June 1975 (the metro station memorial hall was opened 23 February 1978). Architectural-sculptural composition is dominated by a 48-metre obelisk assembled from blocks of
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Hippodromes
HIPPODROMES. A hippodrome was built in 1861 in the north part of Krasnoe Selo (where in 1772 the first races in Russia were held) L.N. Tolstoy described it in his novel Anna Karenina (after 1945, a municipal forest park was laid out there)
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His Imperial Majesty's Cabinet
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S CABINET, central state institution. Created in 1704 as Tsar Peter the Great's private cabinet, conducting the personal correspondence of Russian Emperors, managing their personal finances and property
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His Imperial Majesty's Escort
ESCORT, His Imperial Majesty's Personal Escort, a special guards unit, officially known as the Emperor's Personal Guard. The Escort was established in 1811 as a combined Cossack-Caucasian hundred
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Historical Society of St. Petersburg University
HISTORICAL SOCIETY of St. Petersburg University founded in 1889 on the initiative of Professor N. I. Kareev, who became its permanent chairman. The society had its meetings at the Faculty of History and Philology
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Historical style (Eclecticism)
HISTORICAL STYLE (Eclecticism), architectural style of the 1830s-90s. The sense of Eclecticism is the free choice or the amalgamation of methods and motifs of a variety of historical styles, associatively expressing the purpose of buildings
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Holy Annunciation Church (Eighth Line of Vasilievsky Island)
HOLY ANNUNCIATION CHURCH located at 67 Eighth Line of Vasilievsky Island. An architectural monument in the Baroque style. The stone two-storeyed church was built in 1750-72, financed by merchants I. S. Chirkin and I. I
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Holy Annunciation Church (Truda Square)
HOLY ANNUNCIATION CHURCH, on Truda Square, was erected for the Cavalry Life-Guards' Regiment in 1844-49 according to the designs of architect K. A. Ton and decorated in the Italian-Byzantine style
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Holy Ascension Church
HOLY ASCENSION CHURCH located at 34a Voznesensky Avenue. An architectural monument constructed in 1755-69 (architects A. F. Wist and A. Rinaldi) in a transitional style merging Baroque with Classicism
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Holy Assumption Church on Malaya Okhta
HOLY ASSUMPTION CHURCH ON MALAYA OKHTA, located at 68a Malookhtinsky Avenue. Was funded by public donations in 1996-2001 (architect F. K. Romanovsky) on the territory of the former Malookhtinskoe сemetery in memory of Leningrad citizens who died
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Holy Assumption Church on Sennaya Square
HOLY ASSUMPTION CHURCH ON SENNAYA SQUARE, (common name - Saviour Church on Sennaya Square). The first wooden church, Procession of Holy Cross, was moved to Sennaya Square from Vyborgskaya Side in 1753
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Holy Face Church of the Court Stables
HOLY FACE CHURCH OF THE COURT STABLES, located at 1 Konyushennaya Square, an architectural monument. Originally built of wood, in 1737 it was relocated to a stone building of the Court Stables and placed above its main Gate; along with the building
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Holy Resurrection Cathedral, (Spas-na-Krovi)
HOLY RESURRECTION CATHEDRAL, (SPAS-NA-KROVI "Church of Our Saviour on the Blood", located at 2a Griboedova Canal Embankment, a church constructed in 1883-1907 (architects A. A
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