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Apollon (Apollo), journal
APOLLON (Apollo), a literary journal. It was founded in 1909 by critic S. K. Makovsky, and named after the Ancient Greek God of Sun, Light and Art. In 1909-10 it came out on a monthly basis as a supplement of the Literaturny Almanakh
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Apraksin Yard
APRAKSIN YARD, a group of shops, storehouses, and offices built in the 18th and 19th centuries in the area belonging to the Counts Apraksin (hence the name) and bounded by the Fontanka River, Sadovaya Street, Lomonosova Street, and Apraksin Lane
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Aptekarsky Island
APTEKARSKY ISLAND, (Apothecary Island), situated in the estuary of the Neva River between the Karpovka River separating it from Petrogradsky Island, Malaya Nevka River, and Bolshaya Nevka River. It is 198 hectares in area, 2.7 kilometres long and 1
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Aptekarsky Lane
APTEKARSKY LANE, translated as Pharmacy Lane, between Millionnaya Street and Moika River Embankment. It was laid in 1730s and called Aptekarskaya Street from the early 1730s to 1780s. The lane was so named after the Central Pharmacy moved from SS
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"Aquarium"
"AQUARIUM", an entertainment theatre-garden, set by entrepreneur G.A. Alexandrov (died in 1910), who took a lease on a piece of land at Kamennoostrovsky Avenue in 1886 (on the site of present-day houses Nos
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Archaeological Institute
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, named the Imperial Archaeological Institute until 1917, educational research institution training in archaeology and archives management. Founded in 1877 on the initiative of N. V
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Architectural-Construction University, St. Petersburg State
ARCHITECTURAL-CONSTRUCTION UNIVERSITY, St. Petersburg State, located at 4 Second Krasnoarmeiskaya Street, was established in 1832 as the College for Civil Engineering. It was renamed the Institute for Civil Engineering in 1882
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Arctic and Antarctic, Museum of the
ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC, Museum of the, located at 24а Marata Street. It is the only museum in Russia and the biggest museum in the world devoted to natural environment of the polar regions of the Earth
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Arefyev А.D. (1931-1978), painter
AREFYEV Alexander Dmitrievich (1931-1978), painter. Lived in Leningrad from his childhood, he studied in a secondary drawing school in 1942-49, expelled from the ninth grade for formalism, studied at the Medical Institute in 1950-53
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Army Medical Academy
ARMY MEDICAL ACADEMY situated at 6 Akademika Lebedeva Street, an educational institution providing training for army doctors. A unique scientific and medical centre
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Arsenals (general article)
ARSENALS, establishments for storing and repairing weapons and ammunition, as well as buildings meant for such use. The first arsenals in St. Petersburg (Zeughaus) were built in 1703-05 in St Peter and Paul Fortress and the Admiralty Fortress
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Art Nouveau
ART NOUVEAU (from the French for "new art"), the style in architecture and art of the late19th - early 20th centuries. In St. Petersburg, it developed from the end of 1890s through to the early 1910s
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Artillery Bombardments of 1941-44
ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENTS OF 1941-44, conducted by long-range German artillery in order to destroy Leningrad's industrial and military facilities, and to spread panic among its population during the siege of 1941-1944
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Arts, The House of, literary society
Arts, The House of, an organisation for literary figures. It was founded by K. I. Chukovsky, M. Gorky, A. N. Tikhonov. Opened on 19 November 1919 in the former house of the Eliseev family at 15 Nevsky Prospect / 59 Moika River Embankment
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Asafyev B. V. , (1884-1949) music theorist and composer
ASAFYEV Boris Vladimirovich (penname Igor Glebov) (1884, St. Petersburg - 1949), music theorist, composer, People"s Artist of the USSR (1946), member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946)
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Assembly of Nobility
ASSEMBLY OF NOBILITY, St. Petersburg provincial corporate social class organisation of St. Petersburg Province nobility, founded on the basis of the Charter of Nobility dated 21 April 1785; its aim was to ensure class unity and rights of nobility
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Assignation Bank
ASSIGNATION BANK, founded in 1769 at the same time as the Assignation Bank in Moscow to distribute banknotes and exchange them for metal coins. Backed by copper coins equal to 500,000 roubles
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Aurora, cruiser
AURORA first rank cruiser was founded in 1897 at the New Admiralty dockyard, and became part of the Baltic Fleet in 1903. It weighed over 6,700 tons (in 1917 - 7
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Avtovo
AVTOVO, an area in the southwest part of St. Petersburg, bordered by the Krasnenkaya River on the south and Komsomolskaya Square on the north. The name origin traces back to the Finnish village of Autovo (Auktovo)
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Babolovsky Park (Pushkin town)
BABOLOVSKY PARK (Pushkin town), a monument of landscape architecture situated in the southwestern part of Pushkin town is a part of Tsarskoe Selo palace park ensemble. Its area consists of 268,8 hectares
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Badaev Storage
BADAEV STORAGE, supply stores named after A.E. Badaev (5 Kievskaya Street), a number of wooden storage houses built in 1914 by the first-guild merchant Rasteryaev on an area of 27 hectares
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Bakst L.S., (1866-1924), artist
BAKST (Rosenberg) Lev Samoilovich (1866-1924), painter, graphic artist, and stage designer. He was an irregular student at the Academy of Arts in 1883-87 and private academies in Paris in 1890s. He became a member of the Academy of Arts in 1914
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Balls
BALLS, evening parties with dances, one of the entertainments of high society in St. Petersburg from the 18th - the early 20th centuries. Balls originated from assemblies, where, according to Tsar Peter the Great's order, minuet, allemande, courante
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Baltic Fleet
BALTIC FLEET, consolidation of the naval forces of Russia - USSR - Russian Federation, based on the Baltic Sea. Built up by Tsar Peter I during the Northern War of 1700-21
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Baltic Shipping Company
BALTIC SHIPPING COMPANY (BSC). The history of BSC (5 Mezhevoy Canal) goes back to the foundation of St. Petersburg-Lubeck Shipping Society in 1830; its present-day name was given in 1922. By 1941 BSC had 20 ships
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Baltic Shipyard and Machine-Building Plant
BALTIC SHIPYARD AND MACHINE-BUILDING PLANT (16 Kosaya Line), open joint-stock company, one of the biggest ship and machine building enterprises of Russia. It was founded in 1856 by M. E. Karr, a merchant and M. L. McPherson, an engineer
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Bank Buildings (entry)
BANK BUILDINGS, public buildings designed for housing finance and credit institutions. The first special bank buildings were the Assignation Bank building at Sadovaya Street (1783-90, architect G
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Banks (entry)
BANKS, credit system institutions. St. Petersburg has been the central element of the system from the time it came into being through 1917. The first banks in Russia were founded on the initiative of the state and financed from the treasury
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Baranovsky G.V.(1860-1920), architect
BARANOVSKY Gavriil Vasilievich (1860-1920, St. Petersburg), architect, architecture historian, editor. Upon graduation from the College of Civil Engineers (1885), in 1885-1917
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Baroque
BAROQUE, an artistic style. Its forms are closely related to the art of late antiquity and Renaissance (it applies to order elements, elaborately combined with such ornamental motifs as draped atlantes' torsos or leaves of acanthus)
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