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                                                                                                  Apraksin Fedor Matveevich
                                                      
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                                                        Apraksin F.M., (1661-1728), Admiral 
                                                                           
                         
                        APRAKSIN Fedor Matveevich (1661-1728), Count (1709), General Admiral (1708), statesman and military officer, associate of Tsar Peter the Great. Brother of P.M. Apraksin and Tsarina Marfa, wife of Tsar Fedor Alexeevich
                                             
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                                                        Anna Ioanovna, Empress (1693-1740) 
                                                                           
                         
                        ANNA IOANNOVNA (1693-1740, St. Petersburg), Empress (from 1730). The daughter of Tsar Ivan V, niece of Tsar Peter the Great. In 1710, she married Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Courland, and within two months she was widowed
                                             
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                                                        Apraksin P.M. (1659-1728), statesman 
                                                                           
                         
                        APRAKSIN Peter Matveevich (1659-1728), count (from 1710), statesman, acting secret councillor (1725), brother of F.M. Apraksin. In 1698-1708, he was a Novgorod Voevode (military commander)
                                             
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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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                                                        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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                                                        Rastrelli B. C. (1675-1744), sculptor 
                                                                           
                         
                        RASTRELLI, Bartolomeo Carlo de (1675-1744), sculptor, architect, carver, representative of the Baroque. Of Italian descent, studied in Florence. From 1698, worked in Rome, from 1700, in Paris. In 1716, he came to 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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