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Search result: alphabet - G
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Golden Anchor Restaurant
GOLDEN ANCHOR (7 6th Line of Vasilievsky Island). A restaurant opened in 1823, shortly afterwards becoming the favourite establishment of artists, students and lecturers from the Academy of Arts, located nearby
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Goldgor D.S. (1912-1982), architect.
GOLDGOR David Semenovich (1912, St. Petersburg - 1982, Leningrad), architect, graphic artist. Graduated from the Leningrad College of Engineering and Urban Planning (1934). He was in charge of the workshop of Lenproject Institute (from 1953)
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Golenischev-Kutuzov P.V., Governor General 1825-30
GOLENISCHEV-KUTUZOV Pavel Vasilievich (1772-1843, St. Petersburg), Count (1832), statesman and military figure, General of Cavalry (1826), Adjunct General (1810). He was brought up in the Corps of Pages, from 1794, he served in Cavalry Guards
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Golitsyn Family
GOLITSYN, princely family, the Gediminovich Dinasty, important in the 16th century. Several members, including Prince M.M. Golitsyn, were closely associated with St. Petersburg. His son was Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1718-1783, St
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Golitsyn M.M. (1675-1730), Field Marshal-General
GOLITSYN Mikhail Mikhailovich (1675-1730), Prince, military commander, Field Marshal General (1725). Commenced his military career as a private soldier of the Semenovsky Regiment
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Golos (The Voice), newspaper, 1863-1884
GOLOS (The Voice), a daily political and literary newspaper; was published from January 1863 to February 1883 under the editorship of its publisher А. А. Kraevsky (from 1871 jointly with V. А. Bilbasov)
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Golovin А.Y. (1863-1930), artist
GOLOVIN Alexander Yakovlevich (1863-1930, Detskoe Selo), stage designer and painter, full member of the Academy of Arts (1912), people's artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1928)
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Golovinsky Bridge
GOLOVINSKY BRIDGE, across Chernaya River at the river mouth, joining Ushakovskaya and Vyborgskaya embankments. Built in 1875 where from 1817 a wooden bridge had existed. It had a wooden arched structure on stone piers
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Golovkin G.I. (1660-1734), count, statesman
GOLOVKIN Gavriil Ivanovich (1660-1734, St. Petersburg), Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1707), Count of the Russian Empire (1709), diplomat, statesman, associate of Emperor Peter the Great (half-cousin of Tsarina Natalia Kirillovna, nee Naryshkina
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Goncharnaya Street
GONCHARNAYA STREET, from Vosstaniya Square to Poltavskaya Street. Known as Novaya Pershpektivnaya Road in the mid-18th century, assuming its present-day name in the 1780s after the potteries and potters' settlements that developed here
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Goncharov I.A. (1812-1891), writer
GONCHAROV Ivan Alexandrovich (1812-1891, St. Petersburg), writer, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1860). Graduated from the Philological Department of Moscow University (1834). In St. Petersburg from 1835
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Gonzaga P. (1751-1831), artist, decorator
GONZAGA. Gonzago Peter Fedorovich (Pietro di Gottardo) (1751-1831, St. Petersburg), theatrical designer, painter, decorator, architect, theorist, honorary free member of Academy of Arts (1794). Studied in Venice and Milan. Came to St
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Gorbachev I. O. (1927-2003), actor, director
GORBACHEV Igor Olegovich (1927-2003), actor, director, People's Artist of the USSR (1972), Hero of Socialist Labour (1987). In 1945, he enrolled at the Philosophy Department of the Leningrad State University
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Gorchakov A.M., (1798-1883), statesman
GORCHAKOV Alexander Mikhailovich (1798-1883), Serene High Prince (1871), statesman, diplomat, State Chancellor (1867), Honorary Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1856). Descended from the ancient princely Rurik Dynasty
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Gordanov V.V. (1902-1983), film director
GORDANOV Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich (1902, Tsarskoe Selo - 1983), cinematographer, Honoured Worker of Arts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1950. He left the Leningrad Technical School of Photography and Cinematography in 1928
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Gordeev F.G., (1744-1810), sculptor
Gordeev Fedor Gordeevich (1744, Tsarskoe Selo - 1810, St. Petersburg), sculptor. Studied at the Academy of Arts (1759-67) under N.F. Gillet, and received a retainer from the Academy of Arts to study in Paris (1767 - 1769) and in Rome (1769 - 1772)
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Gorelovo, locality
GORELOVO, an area in the south-west of St. Petersburg, along Tallinskoe Freeway, to the north of Krasnoe Selo. It was named after a village of the same name. In the 19th - early 20th centuries
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Gorely Stream
GORELY, a stream that flows in the north-east of St. Petersburg, near Rzhevka, leading it to be called Rzhevka River on occasion. The stream is a tributary of the Lubya River which forms part of the to the Okhta river basin
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Gorky House of Scientists, a creative club
GORKY HOUSE OF SCIENTISTS of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 26 Dvortsovaya Embankment, an academic club for the intelligentsia. It was founded on the initiative of M
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Gorky Maxim (1868-1936), writer
GORKY Maxim (real name Maxim Peshkov) (1868-1936), writer, playwright, publicist, public figure. First visited St. Petersburg in September–October 1899. In 1900 joined the Znanie Publishing Company; and headed it for over ten years
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Gorky Science Library
GORKY SCIENCE LIBRARY of St. Petersburg University (7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment), founded in 1783. The initial library collection belonged to P.F. Zhukov. His library was purchased by order of Empress Catherine the Great and handed over to the
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Gornostaev A.M. (1808-1862), architect.
GORNOSTAEV Alexey Maximovich (1808-1862, St. Petersburg), architect, teacher, representative of the Neo-Russian style, member of the academy (1838), professor of the Academy of Fine Arts (from 1849), college Advisor (1859). From 1825, he lived in St
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Gorodetsky S.M. (1884-1967), poet
GORODETSKY Sergey Mitrofanovich (1884, St. Petersburg - 1967) poet, prose writer, translator and playwright. On graduating from the 6th St. Petersburg Gymnasium he studied (from 1902) at the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University
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Gorodskoy Island
GORODSKOY ISLAND, name of Petrogradsky Island in the first third of the 18th century. The first city buildings were constructed in the island near the present-day Troitskaya Square. Troitsky Island was another name used at that time.
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Gorokhovaya Street
GOROKHOVAYA STREET, runs from Admiralteysky Avenue to Zagorodny Avenue, crossing the Moika River (Krasny Bridge), Griboedova Canal (Kamenny Bridge) and the Fontanka River (Semenovsky Bridge)
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Gorskaya
GORSKAYA, locality in the southern part of Sestroretsk, east of Primorskoe Freeway. The territory incorporates a railway station of the same name within the railway line linking St. Petersburg and Sestroretsk and a summer settlement
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Gostiny Dvor
GOSTINY DVOR (Trading Court), a trading center made up of rows of shops. The first city market of this kind consisting of numerous wooden shops appeared in Berezovy (Gorodskoy) Island near the present-day Troitskaya Square
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Gottorp Globe
GOTTORP GLOBE, a unique planetarium globe - a hollow rotating sphere over 3.1 metres in diameter with the Earth surface pictured on the outside and a celestial map on the inside of the sphere
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Govorov L.A. (1897-1955), military commander, Marshal
GOVOROV Leonid Alexandrovich (1897-1955), military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944), Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). In 1916 enrolled in Petrograd Polytechnic Institute
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Goznaka Paper Factory
GOZNAKA PAPER FACTORY (144a Fontanka River Embankment) is a leading company of high-quality paper production by order of the Central Bank of Russian Federation mostly for printing banknotes and securities
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