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In February 1937 the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers opened in the Anichkov Palace, today the Saint Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity. Before that, after the Revolution, the city museum had existed here for a short time; it was closed in 1925, and until 1927 the same premises also housed
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Dear girls, women, mothers! Happy the holiday of not keeping silent about your rights! Which one may wish for everyone, on any day of the year
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A city should be composed of varied masses, if we want it to delight the eye… Let there be seen in it the gently convex milky dome, and the religious, endless spire, and the Eastern mitre, and the flat Italian roof, and the tall, ornamented Flemish one, and the four-
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Born on 12 October 1969 in Leningrad. Graduated from a school of literature and history and from an art school in 1986. From 1987 to 1989 served in the Soviet Army at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On returning from the army he began performing as a soloist in Sergey Kuryokhin’s
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KAMAZ: Looks Like I Really Am the First at This Arch. The Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment: in pain
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Alexander Orlovsky's illustrations to Gaspard Drouville's "Journey to Persia". Saint Petersburg, 1819–1821. A remarkable example of early Russian lithography.
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Nicholas II's Half-Track Packard 3-38 of 1915. The photograph was taken in February 1917 in front of the Shuvalov Palace on Italyanskaya Street; by that time the Tsar's motor car had already been requisitioned and handed over to the Military Motor-Car School
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The monument to Pushkin by the sculptor Leopold Bernstam was erected in the town of Pushkin, at the intersection of Oktyabrsky Boulevard, Dvortsovaya Street and Peterburgskoye Highway, in July 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, when the town was occupied by German troops, who destroyed and damaged many structures of
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Watercolour by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, 1841 Alexei Stolypin was Mikhail Lermontov's first cousin once removed and a close friend. Alexei was the son of Arkady Alexeyevich Stolypin, Procurator-General of the Senate, who was the brother of Lermontov's grandmother. On completing the School of Guards Sub-
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Head of the Hamburg CDU Group Proposes Ending the City's Twinning with Saint Petersburg, in Force Since 1957. According to the politician, Russia is not a partner of Germany, and Saint Petersburg is not a partner city of Hamburg. Instead, the CDU proposes establishing a full twinning of
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Such was the look of the wooden structure that housed theatrical and circus performances at public festivities: the booth, or balagan. This one is the celebrated balagan of the merchant Nikolaev, set up in the Admiralty District of Saint Petersburg. It was called the "Great Roller Coaster" (Bolshoy