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Razyezzhaya Street

RAZYEZZHAYA STREET (in the first half of the 19th century, it was also referred to as Chernyshev Lane), between Zagorodny Avenue and Ligovsky Avenue. The road was named in 1739, constructed in the 1740s following the designs of St

Real Schools (entry)

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Red Guards

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Remizov A.M. (1877-1957), writer

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Repin Academic Institute Of Painting, Sculpture And Architecture, St. Petersburg State

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Repin I.E., (1844-1930), Artist

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Repino, settlement

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Research and Study Centre of Physics and Technology Institute

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Residential Blocks (entry)

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Restaurants (entry)

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Restoration Workshops and Organizations

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Revolution of 1905-07

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Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory

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Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum Apartment

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Rimsky-Korsakov N.A., (1844-1908), composer

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Rinaldi А. (1709-1794), architect

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River Port

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Road of Life

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Robespierre Embankment

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Roerich N.K., (1874-1947), artist, archaeologist, writer

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Roman Catholic Church of the French Embassy

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Rossi C.I. (1775-1849), architect

ROSSI Carl Ivanovich (Carlo Giovanni) (1775-1849, St. Petersburg), architect. The son of the court ballerina G. Lepik. Graduated from the Peterschule in St. Petersburg, apprenticed architecture with V

Rostral Columns

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Rudnev L.V. (1885-1956), architect

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Rumyantsevsky Obelisk

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Rusca L.I. (1762-1822), architect

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Russian Academy

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Russian Bank for Foreign Trade

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Russian Bank of Commerce and Industry

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Russian Ethnographical Museum

RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM, at 4а Inzhenernaya Street, was established in 1902 as the Ethnographical Department of the Russian Museum. The museum was opened in 1923. It became independent in 1934 as the State Museum of Ethnography