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Address Directories

ADDRESS DIRECTORIES, reference publications containing information about addresses of people and institutions. The first address book in St. Petersburg Address and Reference Book in Russian, German and French Languages was published in 1809 by G

Bloknot Agitatora (The Agitator's Notebook), journal

BLOKNOT AGITATORA (The Agitator's Notebook), a pocket size social-political journal, published by the Propaganda Department of the Leningrad regional and city party committees of the All-Union Communist Party(of Bolsheviks)

Brick Works

BRICK WORKS. In the early 19th century, brick was imported to St. Petersburg by sea via Lubeck or produced by specially invited Dutch masters. The first Russian brick manufacturer, according to M.I

Building Materials (entry)

BUILDING MATERIALS. The production of building materials in St. Petersburg started soon after the foundation of the city. In 1705, brick factories already functioned along the Neva River in the area of the Ivanovsky rapids

Chicherin N.I. Chief of the Police General in 1745-60

CHICHERIN Nikolay Ivanovich (1724-1782), statesman and combat leader, general en shef (1773). In 1737 he was registered in the Guards, in 1740 a batman of Anton Ulrich Duke of Brunswick. In 1742 he was transferred to the Army

Kurbatov V.Y., (1878-1957), Chemist, Regional Ethnographer

KURBATOV Vladimir Yakovlevich (1878, St. Petersburg - 1957, Leningrad) chemist, art historian, regional ethnographer. Upon graduating from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the St

Lukomsky G.K.(1884-1952), Artist, Ethnographer

LUKOMSKY Georgy Kreskentievich (1884-1952) was a graphic artist, aquarellist, art critic, art historian. In 1900, he studied at the painting classes and drawing under Y. S. Goldblatt in St. Petersburg

Natural stone

NATURAL STONE. Since the early 18th century, Putilovo slab limestone has been used in construction (quarried by Putilovskaya Mountain near the mouth of the Volkhov River)

Pushkin Society

PUSHKIN SOCIETY based on the Society of Friends of the State Museum and Reserve Pushkin Corner in 1931 in order to study and popularise Russian classical literature of the 19th century, especially Alexander Pushkin's works

Pylyaev M.I. (1842-1899), expert of regional ethnography

PYLYAEV Mikhail Ivanovich (1842, St. Petersburg - 1899, the same city) writer and journalist. He received no systematic education, but attended lectures at Kharkov University and abroad

Reformed School

REFORMED COLLEGE, Reformed Church College situated at 38 Moika River Embankment, a secondary education institution founded in 1818 by St. Petersburg's reformed community on the basis of a boarding school managed by pastor J

Tsylov N.I. (1799 or 1801-1879), Cartographer

TSYLOV Nikolay Ivanovich (1799, Peterhof - 1879, St. Petersburg) cartographer and topographer, Major-General (1860). Tsylov graduated from the First Cadets Corps in St. Petersburg in 1817. Served in the Caucasus in 1817-20

Ves Peterburg (Entire St. Petersburg)

VES PETERBURG (Entire St. Petersburg), yellow and white pages directory, was published annually by the A. S. Suvorin (Publishing) Society in 1894-1917 (in 1914-17 was known as Ves Petrograd by the analogy with the directory Vsya Moskva

Yatsevich A.G. (1887-1942), Regional Ethnographer

YATSEVICH Andrey Grigorievich (1887, St. Petersburg - 1942, Leningrad) art historian, regional ethnographer, specialist in the works by Pushkin. Yatsevich graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University in 1905