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Vielgorsky Mikhail Yuryevich and Vielgorsky Matvey Yurievich, Counts, musicians
VIELGORSKY MIKHAIL YURYEVICH AND VIELGORSKY MATVEY YURIEVICH, Counts, musicians, patrons of art, brothers ("brothers of harmony"). Born in St. Petersburg. Their father authored drama and musical works, worked as a parlour musician
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Vitebsky Railway Station
VITEBSKY RAILWAY STATION (formerly St. Petersburg, Tsarskoselsky, Moskovsko-Vindavo-Rybinsky Line, and Detskoselsky Railway Station) (52 Zagorodny Ave). The wooden building of Tsarskoselskaya Railway Station was constructed in August-September 1837
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Vladimirskaya Square
VLADIMIRSKAYA SQUARE, in 1739 - Torgovaya Square, in 1923-50 - Nakhimsona Square after revolutionary S. M. Nakhimson (1885-1918). The square is bounded by Zagorodny Avenue, Vladimirsky Avenue, Kuznechny Lane, Kolokolnaya Street
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Vladimirsky Palace
VLADIMIRSKY PALACE (26 Dvortsovaya Embankment/ 27 Millionnaya Street), architectural monument of eclecticism. It was built for Grand Prince Vladimir Alexandrovich in 1867-1872 (architect A.I. Rezanov with the participation of architects A.L. Gun, I
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Volkovskoe Cemeteries
VOLKOVSKOE CEMETERIES is situated in the north-eastern part of Frunzensky region, the oldest of the St. Petersburg cemeteries functioning today. Volkovskoe Orthodox Cemetery (7а Rasstanny Passage)
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Volodarsky Bridge
VOLODARSKY BRIDGE, across the Neva River, joining Ivanovskaya (left bank of Neva River) and Narodnaya streets. Named in memory of the revolutionary V. Volodarsky, killed in 1918 in this area. Built in 1932-36 (engineers G.P. Peredery, V.I
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Volynsky A.P. (1689-1740), statesman
VOLYNSKY Artemy Petrovich (1689-1740, St Petersburg), statesman, Chief Master of the Hunt (1736). He was married to Peter the Great's cousin, A.L. Naryshkina. Started his career in the Vladimirsky Dragoon Regiment (1708)
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Volzhsko-Kamsky Commercial Bank
VOLZHSKO-KAMSKY BANK, a joint-stock commercial bank founded by a group of manufacturers and merchants with V. A. Kokorev at the head who served as a chairman of the board from 1878. A. F
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Voronikhin A.N. (1759-1814), architect
VORONIKHIN Andrey Nikiforovich (1759-1814, St. Petersburg), architect, adherent of Neoclassicism. Prior to 1785, a serf of Count A.S. Stroganov. He studied in Moscow (from 1777) under the supervision of V.I. Bazhenov and M.F. Kazakov and in St
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Vorontsov Family
VORONTSOV, a famous noble and princely family from the early 16th century. Several of them were closely associated with St. Petersburg. Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714-67) was a count (1744), statesman, diplomat
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Vorontsov Palace
VORONTSOV'S PALACE (26 Sadovaya Street), monument of Baroque architecture. Built in 1749-57 (architect F. Rastrelli) for Count M.I. Vorontsov (see Vorontsov Family)
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Vosstaniya Square
VOSSTANIYA SQUARE (translated as Uprising Square) known as Znamenskaya Square until 1918 lies at the intersection of Nevsky Prospect and Ligovsky Avenue. The first name translated as Holy Sign Square originated from the Holy Sign Church
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Votes
VOTES, an ethnic group descendent from the ancient population of of Votia in Ingria. The Votic language is related to the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language group and is close to Estonian
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Voznesensky Avenue
VOZNESENSKY AVENUE, translated as Ascension Avenue, between Admiralteisky Avenue and Fontanka River Embankment. It was laid in the early 18th century. It runs towards the tower of the Main Admiralty and crosses St Isaac’s Square
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Voznesensky Bridge
VOZNESENSKY BRIDGE, across Griboedov Canal, along the route of Voznesensky Avenue (hence the name). In 1735, there was a wooden bridge here. In the 1780s it was replaced with a single span wooden beam bridge (later with a nogging-strut framed)
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Vyborgskaya Embankment
VYBORGSKAYA EMBANKMENT on the right bank of the Bolshaya Nevka River between Maly Sampsonievsky Avenue and Chernaya Rechka Embankment. The name originated from Vyborgskaya Side in 1887
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Vyborgskaya Side
VYBORGSKAYA SIDE, a historical district of St. Petersburg, on the right bank of the Neva River and the Bolshaya Nevka River. In the east, it is confined by the Chernaya Rechka River
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Vyborgsky District
VYBORGSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 86 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue) The district was founded in 1917; and its present-day territorial borders were established in
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Water Towers
WATER TOWERS. Tall structures with reservoirs at the top; in St. Petersburg, they were used mainly to provide water to industrial enterprises and railway stations; for storing water in case of emergency; and for the evening-out of water consumption
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Willie Y. V., (1768-1854), baronet
WILLIE Yakov (James) Vasilievich (1768-1854, St. Petersburg) was a baronet (1819), organiser of military medical service, Doctor of Medicine(1794), court medic (1799), honourable member of St
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Winter Canal
WINTER CANAL was dug from the Palace Embankment to the Moika river embankment by the contractor V. Ozerov (228 meters long, about 20 meters wide, average waterflow of 2m3/s) in 1718-19
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Winter Palace
WINTER PALACE, the Great Winter Palace (38 Dvortsovaya (Palace) Embankment), a Baroque architectural monument (1754-1762, architect F.B. Rastrelli). Up until 1917, it remained the main Imperial residence in St
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Winter Palace Fire of 1837
WINTER PALACE FIRE OF 1837. Started on the evening of 17 December 1837, due to a faulty chimney connecting the choirs and the wooden vault in Peter the Great's Hall
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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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Witte S.Y. (1849-1915), statesman
WITTE Sergey Yulievich (1849-1915, П.), count (1905), statesman, Actual Privy Counsellor (1899), Secretary of State (1896), Honorary Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1893)
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Wolf M.O. (1825-1883), publisher
WOLF Mavriky Osipovich (Boleslav Maurytzy) (1825-1883, St. Petersburg), publisher and book-seller. He graduated from a gymnasium in Warsaw in 1838. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1848. Wolf set up his own company under the label M.O
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Wolff et Beranget Confectionery
WOLFF ET BERANGET CONFECTIONERY (18 Nevsky Prospect). Opened by the entrepreneurs S.Wolff and T. Beranget in the early 1800s on the first floor of the K.B. Kotomin Building (see House of Kotomin); in the 1820s
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Women’s Institutes (Entry)
WOMEN’S INSTITUTES were boarding schools of intermediate education. They were under the oversight of the Department of Empress Maria's Establishments in 1796-1917
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Women’s Pedagogical Institute
WOMEN’S Pedagogical Institute was an institution of higher education of the Department of Institutions of Empress Maria. It was established in 1903 on the basis of the Pedagogical Courses of the St. Petersburg Girls’ Gymnasia
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Workers' Towns (entry)
WORKERS' TOWNS. Building complexes which combined housing, educational and service institutions. The construction of workers' towns in Russia started in the 1900s on the initiative of the Association for the Organisation and Improvement of Housing
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