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the Stroganovs
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Stroganov Family
STROGANOV FAMILY, barons (from 1722) and counts (from 1826; some branches had the title of Count from 1761); family originating from notable people of the second half of the 15th century. Several family members were closely associated with St
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Academic Gymnasium
ACADEMIC GYMNASIUM, the first general secondary education institution in Russia. It was founded as a part of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1724 and opened in January 1726 to provide training to boys coming from various free social classes
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Birzhevaya Square
BIRZHEVAYA SQUARE, translated as Exchange Square, in 1937-89 - Pushkinskaya Square. The square lies on the spit of Vasilievsky Island between Universitetskaya Embankment and Makarova Embankment
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Holy Trinity & St. Sergius Hermitage
HOLY TRINITY & ST. SERGIUS HERMITAGE, a seaside Holy Trinity & St. Sergius Hermitage, located at 15 Peterburgskoe Highway. A monastery founded in 1732 by Archimandrite Varlaam (Vysotsky) on the 19th verst of the Peterhof highway on the location of a
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Menelas A.A. (1753-1834), architect
MENELAS Adam Adamovich (1753-1831, Tsarskoe Selo), architect, landscape designer, representative of the late Neoclassicism. Native of Scotland. From 1785, resided in Russia, worked as a mason in the workshop of N.A. Lvov in Torzhok and Mogilev
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Moika, river
MOIKA (the original name Mya; known as Muya until the early 18th century, derived from the Izhora word for "slush, mire"), a river in the Neva river delta. The Moika River is 4.67 kilometres long, with a width of up to 40 metres
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Mokhovaya Street
MOKHOVAYA STREET (until 1826 - Khamovaya Street or Khamovskaya Street), between Tchaikovskogo Street and Belinskogo Street. It was built up in the settlement of weavers ("khamovnik" - hence the first name)
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Museums (general article)
MUSEUMS. Russia's first public museums appeared in St. Petersburg. In 1702 Peter the Great issued first orders on collecting and exhibiting high-quality models and various rarities
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Music salons (entry)
MUSIC SALONS, a social form of public musical performance, amateur and professional, more popular than public concerts during the late 18th century - first half of the 19th century
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Nevsky Prospect
NEVSKY PROSPECT known as Bolshaya Pershpektivnaya Road or Bolshaya Pershpektiva until 1738, Nevskaya Prospektivaya Street or Nevskaya Perspektiva in 1738-1780s, and 25 October Avenue in 1918-44 so named in memory of the October Revolution of 1917
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Patronage of Art (entry)
PATRONAGE OF ART is disinterested financial and other forms of participation in the culture, science, and assistance to figures of science and culture. The beginning for patronage of art in St
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Petergofskaya Road
PETERGOFSKAYA ROAD (Petergofskaya Pershpektiva), name of Narvskaya Road between St. Petersburg and Peterhof in the 18th century. The road ran along the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland in place of the present-day Staro-Petergofsky Avenue
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Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments
PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL MONUMENTS. A systematic comprehensive organization of measures aimed at research, preservation, restoration and controlled use of inherited structures and objects of cultural importance
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Sadovnikov P.S. (1796-1877), architect
SADOVNIKOV Peter Semenovich (1796-1877, St. Petersburg), architect, Member of the Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1849). Brother of V.S. Sadovnikov. Came from a family of serfs. Studied under the supervision of the architect A.N
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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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Staro-Petergofsky Avenue
STARO-PETERGOFSKY AVENUE, called Yunogo Proletariya Avenue from 1922 to 1933, then known as Gaza Avenue until 1991, in honour of I.I. Gaza, a Bolshevist and a worker of Putilov Plant (1894-1933). It leads from the Fontanka River to Stachek Square
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Stroganov Palace
STROGANOV PALACE (17 Nevsky Prospect), an architectural monument of the late Baroque period. Originally a two-storey house at the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Moika River Embankment (1738, architect M.G
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