Miklukho-Maclay Nikolay Nikolaevich :: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SAINT PETERSBURG

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Annenschule, School

ANNENSCHULE, a school attached to St. Anna's Lutheran Church, situated at 8a Kirochnaya Street. Y. I. Bruce, Peter the Great’s associate, made a decision in 1722 to provide regular training to children in reading and writing in German language with a separate school building later constructed. The school was opened on 3 January 1736 with pastor L. Shattner as the first teacher and director.

City Topography // Urban Network // Streets //
Galernaya Street GALERNAYA STREET, runs from Dekabristov Square to Novo-Admiralteysky Canal Embankment crossing Truda Square. In 1738, it was known as Isaakievskaya Street (after St. Isaac"s Cathedral), assuming the name Staraya Isakievskaya Street in the second half of the 18th century.

City Topography // Urban Network // Streets //

Kazanskaya Street

KAZANSKAYA STREET known as First Perevedenskaya Street in the 1740s, Bolshaya Meshchanskaya Street from the 1750s to 1873, and Plekhanova Street in memory of G. V. Plekhanov from 1923 to 1998. The street runs between Nevsky Prospect and Fonarny Lane. It was named after Kazan Cathedral. It appeared in the early-to-mid 18th century in the location of Perevedenskaya Settlement (hence the first name).

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Miklukho-Maclay N.N., (1846-1888), ethnographer

MIKLUKHO-MACLAY Nikolay Nikolaevich (1846-1888, St. Petersburg), traveller, ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist. Spent his childhood in St. Petersburg, then, from 1863 to 1864, audited courses at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of St. Petersburg. After being expelled from the university "for his repeated violation of order", he went on to study in Germany, where in 1868 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Jena.

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Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography

MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkammer) (MAE) (3 University Embankment), a science and research institution and museum founded in 1879 after a merger of the Museum of Ethnography and the Museum of Anatomy of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, awarded the name of Peter the Great in 1902.

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Museum of Zoology MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY of the Institute of Zoology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1 University Embankment), Russia's largest museum of its type. Founded in 1832 it first welcomed visitors in 1838. In 1930 the Institute of Zoology emerged on the basis of the museum.

Literature. Book Publishing // Publishing Houses //

Publications on Regional Ethnography (entry)

PUBLICATIONS ON REGIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY include books and articles devoted to one or another district or territory. Foreigners who visited the city from the 1710s were the first to publish information about St. Petersburg. The work by А. I. Bogdanov Historical, Geographical and Topographic description of St. Petersburg from Its Emergence, from 1703 to 1751 (published in 1779) was prepared in 1752.

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State University, St. Petersburg STATE UNIVERSITY, ST. PETERSBURG (SPSU) (7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment) is one of the largest educational, scientific and cultural centers of Russia. The university comes from the Academic University, which was later reorganised into the Normal School, the Normal Gymnasium, the Pedagogical Institute and the Major Pedagogical Institute.

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