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Consular Institutions (entry)

CONSULAR INSTITUTIONS, or permanent governmental organs for foreign affairs, executed security and protection of economic and judicial interests of their country's citizens and legal bodies, the issuance of visas and passports, and acted as notaries

Contemporary Architecture

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. A rejection of standard and typical styles used for mass residential blocs from the Soviet period; an attempt to enrich the range of expression

Conversations for Lovers of the Russian Word , Literary Society

CONVERSATIONS FOR LOVERS OF THE RUSSIAN WORD, a literary society, formed in 1811 as a continuation of literary soirees organized by G. R. Derzhavin, A. S. Shishkov, M. N. Muravyev, I. S. Zakharov in their own houses from 1807

Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel

CORINTHIA NEVSKIJ PALACE (57 Nevsky Prospect). Constructed as an apartment house in 1861-62, with a previously existing building included into the design (architect A.I

Corner, Cabaret

CORNER (Ugolok), cabaret theatre, and artistic club. Opened in the building of the Passage (entrance from 19 Italyanskaya Street) in January 1915. It was established by G. P. Makarov. V. N. Davydov, L. Y. Lipkovskaya, E. V. Lopukhova, Y. S

Cossack Life Guards Regiment

COSSACK LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, regiment of guards cavalry, recruited from the Don Cossacks. Formed in 1795 out of the Don and Chuguev Court Cossack Companies (set up in 1775) and the Gatchina Cossack Regiment (set up in 1793) as the Hussar Cossack

Court Cathedral of Our Lady Feodorovskaya

COURT CATHEDRAL OF OUR LADY FEODOROVSKAYA in Tsarskoe Selo, located at 32 Akademichesky Avenue, Pushkin, an architectural monument, attached to the unfinished complex of Feodorovsky settlement

Court Ceremonies

COURT CEREMONIES, acts performed by the monarch as part of his responsibilities and duties, accompanied by formal ceremonial spectacles and events. Court ceremonies played an important role in the life of the Imperial Court and were the best (and

Crafts Academy

CRAFTS ACADEMY, State, Saint Petersburg (13 Solyanoy Lane) is one of the leading creative academies in Russia, originating from the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing (CSTD, 1876-1924)

Crematorium

CREMATORIUM (12 Shafirovsky Avenue) opened in 1973 (architect A.S. Konstantinov, D.S. Goldgor, N.M. Zaharyina). The crematorium complex consists of nine ritual halls, ten cremators, and a columbarium of 5,000 square metres. In St

Cruys К.I. (1657-1727), Admiral

CRUYS Kornely Ivanovich (Kornelius) (1657-1727, St. Petersburg), associate of Emperor Peter the Great, one of the founders of the Russian fleet, Admiral (1721), a Dane

Cuirassier Life Guards His Majesty’s Regiment

CUIRASSIER LIFE GUARDS HIS MAJESTY’S REGIMENT, Cavalry Guards Regiment, raised in 1702 as the Dragoon Prince Grigory Volkonsky’s Regiment, from 1708 Yaroslavsky Dragoon Regiment

Curtain and Lace Company

CURTAIN AND LACE COMPANY (25 Chapaeva Street), an open joint-stock company, the largest national enterprise manufacturing curtain cloth, lace, and lacery. Founded in 1837 as the St

Dachnaya, river

DACHNAYA, a river in the south-west of St. Petersburg, formerly a left tributary to the Krasnenkaya River. The river is drawn from the west of the village of Staropanovo

Dachnoe

DACHNOE, an area in the south-west part of St. Petersburg, between Krasnenkaya River, Baltiiskaya Railway Line, Stachek Avenue and Alexandrino Forest Park. In the north, it borders Avtovo, in the south-west Ulyanka

Dal V. I. (1801-1872), writer, ethnographer, lexicographer, doctor

DAL Vladimir Ivanovich (1801-1872), writer, ethnographer, lexicographer, doctor, Corresponding Member of Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1838). He graduated from the Naval Military School (1819) and from the Faculty of Medicine of Derpt University

Dalsky (Neelov) M.V. (1865-1918), actor

DALSKY (born Neelov) Mamont Viktorovich (1865-1918), actor. He studied law at Kharkov University but quit as he was in his second year in 1885. He worked as an actor in the country and at E. N. Goreva's theatre in Moscow in 1889-90

Dan F. I. (1871-1947), Social Democrat, Menshevik

DAN (birth name Gurvich) Fedor Ilyich (1871, St. Petersburg - 1947), a statesman. On graduating from the Faculty of Medicine of Yuryev University (1895) Dan worked as a doctor of Obukhovskaya Hospital of St. Petersburg

Dance Classes (entry)

DANCE CLASSES, in the 18th century - classes and schools for dance training. Soon after Peter's introduction of the ballroom dances (in the early 18th century) into court ceremony dances became one of the most important cultural skills

Danilevsky N. I, entrepreneur

DANILEVSKY Nikolay Ivanovich (1849, St. Petersburg - 1929), engineer and entrepreneur. Graduated from St. Petersburg Technological Institute with a major in mechanics in 1869 and stayed on as a lecturer

Danilevsky N.Y. (1822 - 1885), philosopher

DANILEVSKY Nikolay Yakovlevich (1822-85), philosopher, sociologist, and naturalist promoted to Actual Civil Counsellor in 1868. He graduated from Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum in 1842 and was an irregular student at the faculty of physics and mathematics of

Danini S.A. (1867-1942), architect.

DANINI Silvio Amvrosievich (1867-1942, Leningrad), architect. Descendent of an Italian family. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1886, graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1892

Danko N.Y. (1892-1942), sculptor

DANKO (Danko-Alexeenko) Natalia Yakovlevna (1892-1942), sculptor-ceramist. Living in St. Petersburg from 1908, she studied in workshops of M.L. Dillon and L.V. Shervud. From 1909 she worked in the workshop of sculptor V.V. Kuznetsov

Dargomyzhsky А.S., (1813-1869), composer

DARGOMYZHSKY Alexander Sergeevich (1813-1869, St. Petersburg), composer. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1817. Educated at home, similarly receiving a musical education. He learned to play the piano under composer and pianist F

Dashkova E.R. (1744-1810), statesman

DASHKOVA (nee Vorontsova) Ekaterina Romanovna (1744 - 1810 , St. Petersburg),duchess and patroness of science and education. A member of the Vorontsov family. She was a participant of the Court Revolt of 1762 and supporter of Empress Catherine II

Davidov А.А. (1867-1942), entrepreneur

DAVIDOV Alexey Avgustovich (1867-1940), banker and manufacturer, Actual Civil Counsellor (1913). Graduating from St. Petersburg University with a major in mathematics and physics in 1891 and from St

Davydov K.Y., (1838-1889), musician

DAVYDOV Karl Yulievich (1838-1889), violoncellist, pedagogue, conductor, composer. Graduated from Moscow University with the rank of Candidate of Mathematical Sciences (1858). Learned to play the violoncello under K.Y. Schubert and others

Davydov V.N., (1849-1925), actor

DAVYDOV Vladimir Nikolaevich (real name Ivan Nikolaevich Gorelov) (1849-1925), actor, pedagogue, People's Artist of the Respublic (1922). In 1866, he graduated from a gymnasium in Tambov

Davydov's Restaurant

DAVYDOV'S RESTAURANT (7 Vladimirsky Avenue), opened in the 1860s by entrepreneur I. B. Davydov. Among St. Petersburgers it was known as "Davydka", or "Capernaum" (according to one version of the story, the latter name was invented by its habitue

Deaf-Mute School

DEAF-MUTE SCHOOL is one of the oldest deaf-mute pedagogical schools in Russia. It was founded as an experimental institution by Empress Maria Fedorovna (who sponsored it until 1810) in Pavlovsk in 1806