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Severnoe Cemetery
SEVERNOE CEMETERY (called Uspenskoe before the 1950s; 3rd Pargolovo). Its area covers about 250 hectares (St. Petersburg's largest cemetery). It was established in 1874
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Shuvalov Palace
SHUVALOV PALACE (25 Italyanskaya Street), a monument of Baroque architecture (1749-55, architect S.I. Chevakinsky), the private residence of Count I.I. Shuvalov
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Smolenskoe Cemeteries
SMOLENSKOE CEMETERIES. Located on Vasilievsky and Dekabristov islands, along both banks of the Smolenka River. The Orthodox Smolenskoe Cemetery (24 Kamskaya Street) is located on the left bank of the Smolenka River on an area of 51.7 hectares
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Society of Architectural Artists, creative society
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL ARTISTS (SAA), a society of architects. It was founded in 1903, by the initiative of architects, graduates and teachers of the Academy of Fine Arts (L.N. Benois, L.V. Rudnev, P.Y. Suzor, A.I. Tamanyan, I.A. Fomin, V.A
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Sovetskie Streets, First - Tenth
SOVETSKIE STREETS, First - Tenth (were called Rozhdestvenskie Streets from 1798 to 1923, after the Nativity of Our Lord Church, with the present-day name given on occasion of the 6th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917)
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Soyuza Pechatnikov Street
SOYUZA PECHATNIKOV STREET, from Kryukov Canal to Kulibina Square. Starting from 1739, the street bore the name Bolshaya Matrosskaya Street, renamed Torgovaya Street in 1776
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Sphinxes
SPHINXES. Mythical creatures with the body of lion and a human head. In the second half of the 18th century, marble sphinxes were installed in the Private Garden in Gatchina and at the Osinovaya Roscha estate
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St. Peter and Paul fortress
ST. PETER AND PAUL FORTRESS, the historical centre of St. Petersburg, a monument of military engineering, the oldest engineering and architectural sight of the city
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Stegelman's House
STEGELMAN'S HOUSE (2/50 Moika River Embankment), a monument of 18th century architecture. It was built to the design of architect F.B. Rastrelli in 1750-53 (according to the other data, in 1758) for the main court supplier H.C. Stegelman
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Stereguschy Monument
STEREGUSCHEMU Monument, unveiled 26 April1911, in Alexandrovsky Park (sculptor K.V. Isenberg, architect A.I. Gogen). During the Russo-Japanese war, on 26 February 1904
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Suvorovsky Avenue
SUVOROVSKY AVENUE, from Nevsky Prospect to Proletarskoy Diktatury Square. The avenue was laid in the mid-18th century. It ran from the Elephant Yard (a menagerie) which used to occupy the site of the present-day Oktyabrskaya Hotel
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The Green Belt of Glory
THE GREEN BELT OF GLORY, a complex of memorial installations and parks along the border-lines of the Battle of Leningrad, 1941-44. The idea of the establishment of the complex was suggested by poet and front-line soldier M.A
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Triscorni А. and Triscorni P., sculptors
TRISCORNI (Trescornia), a family of Italian masters of monumental sculpture. Agostino Triscorni (1761-1824, St. Petersburg) worked in St. Petersburg from the late 1790s (decorative sculptures for the Gatchina Palace, the Imperial Public Library
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Tsarskoe Selo, palace and park ensemble
TSARSKOE SELO (Pushkin town), a monument of town-planning and a palace and park ensemble dating from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. The core of the ensemble is the estate of Empress Catherine I Sarskaya Myza (founded in 1710)
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Uspensky N.V. (1885-1947), founder of the Necropolis Museum
USPENSKY Nikolay Viktorovich (1885-1947), museum worker. He studied at the Higher Phototechnical Institute in the 1920s and worked as a researcher at the Russian Museum from 1926 to 1932. He was a member of Stary Petersburg Society
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Verst Posts (Milestones)
VERST POSTS (Milestones), road signs in the form of granite or marble obelisks; that were placed along the roads from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof one verst apart
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Victims of Political Repressions, Monuments,
MONUMENTS TO THE VICTIMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSIONS, the foundation stone of the monument To the Victims of Political Repressions in Petrograd -Leningrad was laid in 1990 on Revolyutsii Square that was given its historical name, Troitskaya Square
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Victims of the Revolution, Monuments to the
VICTIMS OF THE REVOLUTION, MONUMENTS TO THE. The first monument To the fighters for the revolution was erected on the Field of Mars. On the 23 March (5 April, New Style) 1917, a ceremonial funeral took place here: 184 out of 1
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Volkovskoe Cemeteries
VOLKOVSKOE CEMETERIES is situated in the north-eastern part of Frunzensky region, the oldest of the St. Petersburg cemeteries functioning today. Volkovskoe Orthodox Cemetery (7а Rasstanny Passage)
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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 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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Yuzhnoe Cemetery
YUZHNOE CEMETERY (Volkhonskoe Freeway, suburb area). The largest functioning St. Petersburg cemetery. Its area covers 278 hectares. The cemetery was opened in 1971. The Yuzhnoe Cemetery is outside city limits and can be expanded
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