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"Severnaya Palmyra"(North Palmyra)
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Vvedenskaya Street
VVEDENSKAYA STREET, from Bolshoy Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side to Kronverksky Avenue. The street was known as Second Vvedenskaya Street in the 1730s-90s; from 1923 to 1944 it was called Rozy Luxemburg Street
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Vvedensky A.I. (1904-1941), poet
VVEDENSKY Alexander Ivanovich (1904, St. Petersburg - 1941?), poet, drama writer. In 1921, after graduating from Lentovsky Gymnasium, he entered Law Faculty and then Chinese Department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Petersburg University
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Vyaltseva A.D., (1871-1913), singer
VYALTSEVA (married name Biskupskaya) Anastasiya Dmitrievna (1871-1913, St. Petersburg), operetta and opera (mezzo-soprano) singer, variety actress. Studied singing in St. Petersburg under S. M. Sonki
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Vyazemsky P.A. (1792-1878), poet
VYAZEMSKY Peter Andreevich (1792-1878), duke, poet, literary critic, statesman, full member of the Russian Academy, member of Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841), member of the State Assembly (from 1866)
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Vyazemsky S.M. (1895-1983, Leningrad), regional ethnographer
VYAZEMSKY Sergey Mikhailovich (1895-1983, Leningrad), collector, regional ethnographer, and historian. He graduated from the Economics Department of Tashkent Institute (1925)
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Vyazmitinov S.K., Governor General 1805-1807; 1816-18
VYAZMITINOV Sergey Kuzmich (1744-1819, St. Petersburg), Count (1818), state and military figure, Infantry General (1798). Entered military service in 1759, participated in the Seven-Year War of 1756-63
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Vyborgskaya Embankment
VYBORGSKAYA EMBANKMENT on the right bank of the Bolshaya Nevka River between Maly Sampsonievsky Avenue and Chernaya Rechka Embankment. The name originated from Vyborgskaya Side in 1887
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Vyborgskaya Side
VYBORGSKAYA SIDE, a historical district of St. Petersburg, on the right bank of the Neva River and the Bolshaya Nevka River. In the east, it is confined by the Chernaya Rechka River
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Vyborgsky District
VYBORGSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 86 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue) The district was founded in 1917; and its present-day territorial borders were established in
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Vyshnegradsky A.I. (1867-1925), industrialist
VYSHNEGRADSKY Alexander Ivanovich (1867 St. Petersburg - 1925), businessman, Chamberlain (1905), Actual Civil Councillor (1915). Son of I.A. Vyshnegradsky. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of Petersburg University (1889)
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Vyshnegradsky I.A., (1831-1895), scientist technologist, businessman, statesman
VYSHNEGRADSKY Ivan Alexeevich (1831-95, St. Petersburg), statesman, scientist, businessman, Actual Privy Counsillor (1890), Honorary Member of Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1888)
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Wahl von V.V. Chief of City Administration 1892-95
WAHL Viktor Vilgelmovich (Vasilyevich) (1840-1915, Petrograd), statesman, General of Cavalry (1904). From 1855, von Wahl was in military service. He graduated from Nikolaevskaya Engineers' Academy (1861)
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Wednesdays of Smirnova-Rosset
WEDNESDAYS OF SMIRNOVA-ROSSET were held in the Salon of Alexandra Osipovna Smirnova, born Rosset (1809 or 1810-1882) during the end of the 1820s to the beginning of the 1830s
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Weiner P. P., (1879-1931), publisher of the journal Starye Gody
WEINER Peter Petrovich (1879-1931), public figure, museum worker, collector, full member of the Academy of Arts (1912). He graduated from the Alexandrovsky Lyceum in St
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Widows' House
WIDOWS' HOUSE, charitable establishment for widows and their children. It was opened in 1803 on the initiative of Empress Maria Fedorovna on Vyborgskaya Side, in October 1809 it moved to the former Smolny Convent (today 1 Smolnogo Street)
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Wiese V.Y., (1886-1954), oceanologist, explorer of the Arctic Zone
WIESE Vladimir Yulievich (1886, St. Petersburg - 1954), scientist, explorer of the Arctic Zone, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1933). Graduated from Gottingen University in 1910. In 1912-14, took part in G.Y
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Willie Y. V., (1768-1854), baronet
WILLIE Yakov (James) Vasilievich (1768-1854, St. Petersburg) was a baronet (1819), organiser of military medical service, Doctor of Medicine(1794), court medic (1799), honourable member of St
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Wilson A. Y. (1776-1866), engineer, manager of Izhorsky Plants
WILSON Alexander Yakovlevich (1776-1866), production manager, general engineer (1853). Native of Scotland, he and his father Yakov Wilson, a blacksmith, came to Russia in 1784
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Winter Garden, Variety Theatre
WINTER GARDEN (Zimny Sad), a variety theatre, opened in 1875 by impresario K. Kulebyakin on the spot of the restaurant Orfeum in the former apartment of the English Club (9 Fontanka River Embankment, having been rebuilt)
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Winter Palace
WINTER PALACE, the Great Winter Palace (38 Dvortsovaya (Palace) Embankment), a Baroque architectural monument (1754-1762, architect F.B. Rastrelli). Up until 1917, it remained the main Imperial residence in St
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Winter Palace Fire of 1837
WINTER PALACE FIRE OF 1837. Started on the evening of 17 December 1837, due to a faulty chimney connecting the choirs and the wooden vault in Peter the Great's Hall
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Winter Palaces
WINTER PALACES. The first Winter Palace, "a small house of Dutch design ", was constructed in March of 1708 for Tsar Peter the Great on the left bank of the Neva River in a row of the houses for Admiralty department officials
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Wirrich E.F. (1860-after 1949), architect
WIRRICH (Wurrich) Ernest-Friedrich Franzevich (1860, St. Petersburg - after 1949), painter, architect, academician of architecture of the Academy of Arts (1908)
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Witte S.Y. (1849-1915), statesman
WITTE Sergey Yulievich (1849-1915, П.), count (1905), statesman, Actual Privy Counsellor (1899), Secretary of State (1896), Honorary Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1893)
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Wittgenstein P.K. (1768-1842) Field Marshal
WITTGENSTEIN [Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg] Petr Khristianovich (Peter Christian Adolf) (1768-1842), Count, from 1834 Gracious Prince, military commander, Field Marshal General (1826)
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Wolf M.O. (1825-1883), publisher
WOLF Mavriky Osipovich (Boleslav Maurytzy) (1825-1883, St. Petersburg), publisher and book-seller. He graduated from a gymnasium in Warsaw in 1838. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1848. Wolf set up his own company under the label M.O
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Wolff et Beranget Confectionery
WOLFF ET BERANGET CONFECTIONERY (18 Nevsky Prospect). Opened by the entrepreneurs S.Wolff and T. Beranget in the early 1800s on the first floor of the K.B. Kotomin Building (see House of Kotomin); in the 1820s
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Women’s Institutes (Entry)
WOMEN’S INSTITUTES were boarding schools of intermediate education. They were under the oversight of the Department of Empress Maria's Establishments in 1796-1917
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Workers' Towns (entry)
WORKERS' TOWNS. Building complexes which combined housing, educational and service institutions. The construction of workers' towns in Russia started in the 1900s on the initiative of the Association for the Organisation and Improvement of Housing
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World of Art, Association
WORLD OF ART, an art association. Begun in the mid-1890s by a circle of students, the main body including graduates of K. I. May's Gymnasium, such as Alexander N. Benois, W. F. Nouvel, and D. V. Filosofov, who were later joined by L. S. Bakst, S. P
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