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Philanthropic Society, Imperial
IMPERIAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, the largest charitable establishment of the19th - early 20th centuries in Russia. Founded on 16 May 1802 by Emperor Alexander I as the Beneficial Society for providing the poor with assistance of all kinds on
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Philharmonic named after D.D. Shostakovich
PHILHARMONIC, Saint Petersburg Academy, named after D.D. Shostakovich, the oldest state concert establishment. Created in 1921 on the foundation of the former Court Orchestra (until 1896 the Court Chorus
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Pikalov Bridge
PIKALOV BRIDGE, over Griboedov Canal, on the right embankment of Kryukov Canal. It was named after the surname of the contractor, Pikalov, who built it in 1783-1785
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Pioneering Builders of Petersburg, Monument to the
PIONEERING BUILDERS OF PETERSBURG, MONUMENT TO THE, unveiled on 16 October 1995 in the park on Lesnoy Avenue, next to St. Sampson Cathedral where the first city cemetreies, the Orthodox one and the German one used to be located
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Pirogov Memorial General Clinic
PIROGOV MEMORIAL GENERAL CLINIC (51 Bolshoy Avenue, Vasilievsky Island) medical institution and limited company. It was opened in 1999 and carries out a wide number of surgical operations - from plastic surgery to the most difficult cavitary surgery
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Pirogov N. I., (1810-1881), surgeon
PIROGOV Nikolay Ivanovich (1810-1881), physician, teacher, public figure, Doctor of Medicine (1832), Corresponding Member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1847)
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Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetrey
PISKAREVSKOE MEMORIAL CEMETREY (72 Nepokorennykh Avenue), the main site of mass burials of Leningrad residents who starved to death or perished during the siege of 1941-44
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Platz - Drill Grounds (entry)
PLATZ (from German "Platz" - square) is a large and flat area (squares, waste grounds) for drills and army training. The first platz (drill square) in St. Petersburg was Mars Field
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Plekhanov G.V. (1856-1918), revolutionist
PLEKHANOV Georgy Valentinovich (1856-1918), political figure, publicist. Upon graduating from Voronezh Military School (1873), entered Konstantinovsky Military College
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Plekhanov State Mining Institute, St. Petersburg
PLEKHANOV STATE MINING INSTITUTE, St. Petersburg, (the Technical University), located at 2 Twenty-First Line of Vasilievsky Island is the oldest technical institution of higher education in Russia
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Pochtamtsky Bridge
POCHTAMTSKY BRIDGE (Post Office Bridge), over the Moika River, beside Prachechny Lane. The bridge was built in 1823-24 (engineers V.K. Traitteur, V.A. Khristianovich) as a chain pedestrian bridge to replace a four-span wooden beam bridge that had
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Polenov A. L., (1871-1947), surgeon
POLENOV Andrey Lvovich (1871-1947, Leningrad), one of the founders of Russian neurosurgery, Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1946). He lived in St. Petersburg from 1888. Polenov graduated from the Military Medical Academy (1896)
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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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Political Trials of 1860-80s
POLITICAL TRIALS of 1860-80s, state trials that played the key role in the autocratic penal policy after the judicial reform of 1864. Most cases were tried in the Special Office of the Ruling Senate, doors closed and publicity confined
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Polovtsov Dacha (Summer Residence)
POLOVTSOV DACHA (SUMMER RESIDENCE) (6 Middle Nevka River Embankment), an architectural monument of the Neoclassical style. It was built on the Kamenny Island for A.A. Polovtsov (the younger, son of A.A. Polovtsov) in 1911-1913 (architect I.A
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Polytechnical University
POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University situated at 29 Politekhnicheskaya Street. It was founded as the Polytechnical Institute in 1899, named after Peter the Great in 1910-17
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Polyustrovo
POLYUSTROVO, an area on the right bank of the Neva River, confined with Marshal Blucher Avenue in the north and with Polyustrovsky Avenue and Revolyutsii Freeway in the south, while in the east it is bordered with the railway junction line
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Popov A.S., (1859-1905), physicist
POPOV Alexander Stepanovich (1859-1905, St. Petersburg), physicist and electrical engineer. He graduated from the University of St. Petersburg in 1882. From 1883 to 1900, he taught at various military educational institutions of Kronstadt and St
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Popular Carnivals
POPULAR CARNIVALS, one of the forms of mass popular entertainment. In the 18th- 19th centuries up to 30 carnivals were arranged in St. Petersburg annually. Representatives of all the estates and even members of the royal family took part in them
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Population (entry)
POPULATION of St. Petersburg is the second largest in the Russian Federation after Moscow. From the 18th to the start of the 20th centuries the population continually grew: in 1725 - 40,000 people, in 1750 - 74,000; in 1800 - 220,000; in 1818 - 386
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Porokhovye
POROKHOVYE, an area in the north-east of St. Petersburg, on the left bank of the Okhta River, between Rzhevka and Malaya Okhta. It encompasses territories of Malinovka and Zhernovka
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Post Office, Central
Post Office, CENTRAL (Postamt, from the German meaning Post Office) (9 Pochtamtskaya Street). Founded in St. Petersburg in 1714, located at the Troitskaya Landing (present-day Troitsky Bridge)
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Postal Service
POSTAL SERVICE. The general post-office was founded in St. Petersburg in 1714, and “regular post service” was established along the Moscow and Riga routes. In February 1714, the postal service started biweekly runs from St
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Postwar Restoration of Architectural Monuments
POSTWAR RESTORATION OF ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS. During the Siege of 1941-44, 187 of 210 buildings registered by the government as architectural monuments suffered from bombardment, suburban palaces-museums (except for Oranienbaum) were ruined
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Potemkin G. A. (1739-1791), statesman
POTEMKIN (from 1775 Potemkin-Tavrichesky) Grigory Alexandrovich (1739-1791), Count (1774) and His Highness, Prince (1775), statesman and military officer, favourite of Empress Catherine II, her secret spouse (from 1774) and virtual co-ruler
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Potseluev Bridge
POTSELUEV BRIDGE, (in 1738 known as Tsvetnoy), over the Moika River, on Glinki Street. The bridge was built in 1808-1816 (with intervals, architect V.I. Hastie) in place of a wooden pedestrian bridge that had existed here since 1738 and was replaced
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Prachechny Bridge
PRACHECHNY BRIDGE, over the Fontanka River, by its outlet from the Neva, linking the Dvortsovaya Embankment and Kutuzova Embankment. The name of the bridge refers to Prachechny Yard (Laundry Yard
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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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Presentation of the Holy Virgin Cathedral
PRESENTATION OF THE HOLY VIRGIN CATHEDRAL, located on Zagorodny Avenue, is now the park between buildings 45 and 47, the regimental church (since 1913 a cathedral) of the Semenovsky Life Guard Regiment
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Presentation of the Holy Virgin Church
PRESENTATION OF THE HOLY VIRGIN CHURCH, located at Vvedenskaya Street on the corner of Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street. Constructed in 1793-1810 (architect I. M. Leim) in the Classicist style
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