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Petrograd Planning Council

PETROGRAD PLANNING COUNCIL. Established in 1919, together with an architectural workshop under the supervision of architect I.A. Fomin. Among the council's members were architects A.E. Belogrud and V.A. Shchuko, artists Alexander N. Benois and M.V

Petrograd Revolutionary Defence Committee

PETROGRAD REVOLUTIONARY DEFENCE COMMITTEE, an emergency body, was established on February 21, 1918 at the plenary session of Petrograd Soviet for the purpose of the organization of city defence against approaching German forces

Petrograd Soviet of peasants' deputies

PETROGRAD SOVIET OF PEASANTS' DEPUTIES (until May of 1917 was called the Soviet of peasants' deputies of Petrograd garrison), established on April 14 (27 New Style), 1917 (280 deputies represented about 300 thousand of garrison soldiers)

Petrograd Soviet of working people' and soldiers' deputies

PETROGRAD SOVIET OF WORKING PEOPLE' AND SOLDIERS' DEPUTIES (Petrograd Soviet), was established on February 27 (March 12 New Style), 1917 as Petrograd Soviet of working people's deputies; on March 1 (14 New Style) it united with Petrograd Soviet of

Petrogradskaya Embankment

PETROGRADSKAYA EMBANKMENT known as Peterburgskaya Embankment until 1914. It lies between Petrovskaya Embankment and Karpovka River Embankment on the left bank of the Neva River in the east of Petrogradsky Island (hence the name)

Petrogradskaya Side

PETROGRADSKAYA SIDE (in the 18th century - Gorodskaya Side, until 1914 - Peterburgskaya Side), the joint name of the territory that includes the following islands: Petrogradsky, Aptekarsky, Petrovsky and Zayachy

Petrogradsky District

PETROGRADSKY DISTRICT, an administrative and territorial unit of St. Petersburg, with its administration located at 19 Bolshaya Monetnaya Street. The district was formed in 1917, and in 1936 the Primorsky District was separated from its territory

Petropol

PETROPOL (from Ancient Greek Petropolis, the city of Peter), the name attached to St. Petersburg and St. Peter and Paul Fortress and used in restricted contexts until the designation St. Petersburg was assigned to the city

Petrov Grigory (1866-1925), priest

PETROV Grigory Spiridonovich (1866-1925), priest, public figure and publicist (under the pen-name of Russky). He graduated from St. Petersburg Theological Seminary in 1886 and St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1891

Petrov Institute of Oncology

PETROV INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY, Professor Petrov Research Institute of Oncology situated at 68 Leningradskaya Street, Pesochny Settlement. It was founded in 1927 as the Practical Institute of Oncology attached to the Health Department of Leningrad

Petrov N. N., (1876 - 1964), physician

PETROV Nikolay Nikolaevich (1876, St. Petersburg - 1964, Leningrad), physician, one of the founders of oncology in Russia, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939)

Petrov O.A., (1807-1878), singer

PETROV Osip Afanasievich (1807-1878, St. Petersburg), performed in operas (bass), operettas, and dramas, chamber singer and teacher. Husband of A.Y. Petrova-Vorobyeva. Studied rudiments of music under kapellmeister Bekhman

Petrov V. P. (1736-1799), poet

PETROV Vasily Petrovich (1736-1799) poet, translator, collegiate counsellor (1786). Graduated from the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow (1760). He became popular owing to the Ode to a Carrousel - the poetic description of the knights' gala

Petrov V.M. (1896-1966), film director

PETROV Vladimir Mikhailovich (1896, St. Petersburg - 1966), film director, People’s Artist of the USSR (1951). Graduated from Petrograd University and studied at the Alexandrinsky Theatre School in 1916-17. He also completed director V. K

Petrov-Bytov Pavel Petrovich (1895-1960), film director

PETROV-BYTOV (real name Petrov) Pavel Petrovich (1895-1960, Leningrad), film director, script writer. He worked as unskilled worker and barge hauler. In 1915-21, he served in the army. He graduated from the Petrozavodsk theatre school (1921)

Petrov-Vodkin K.S., Artist (1878-1939)

PETROV-VODKIN Kuzma Sergeevich (1878-1939, Leningrad) was an artist, honoured worker of arts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1930). He trained at the Central College of Technical Drawing from 1895 to 1897

Petrova-Vorobyeva A.Y., (1817-1901), singer

PETROVA-VOROBYEVA (nee Vorobyeva) Anna Yakovlevna (1817 - 1901, St. Petersburg), opera singer (contralto), actress, chamber singer. Wife of O.A. Petrov. Graduated from the Theatre School, studying ballet with Ch. Didelot, and singing with A

Petrovskaya Embankment

PETROVSKAYA EMBANKMENT lying between Troitskaya Square and Petrogradskaya Embankment on the right bank of the Neva River on Petrogradskaya Side. It appeared in what was then the city centre in the 1700s as the first embankment of St. Petersburg

Petrovskie Gate

PETROVSKIE GATE, the front gates of the St. Peter and Paul Fortress, in the Petrovskaya curtain between Gosudarev and Menshikov bastions, from the side of the Gorodskoy Island

Petrovsky Stadium.

PETROVSKY STADIUM (2 Petrovsky Island), built in 1957-61 (architect N.V. Baranov, O.I. Guryev, and V.M. Fromzel). In 1924-25 the wooden V.I. Lenin Stadium was built here (architect I.G

Petrozavod

PETROZAVOD (2 Krasnogvardeiskaya Square), a former shipbuilding plant, founded around 1721 as Okhta Dockyard, known since 1803 as Okhta Admiralty, since 1913 - Petrozavod

Pevtsov I.N., (1879-1934), actor

PEVTSOV Illarion Nikolaevich (1879-1934, Leningrad), actor, pedagogue, People's Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1932). In 1902, completed drama courses at the Musical Drama School of Moscow Philharmonic Society

Pharmacies (common)

PHARMACIES, institutions making and distributing medications. The first official drugstore was opened in 1704 in Peter and Paul Fortress; in 1734 it was transferred to the building of the Medical Office at the corner of Millionnaya Street and a lane

Philanthropic Society, Imperial

IMPERIAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, the largest charitable establishment of the19th - early 20th centuries in Russia. Founded on 16 May 1802 by Emperor Alexander I as the Beneficial Society for providing the poor with assistance of all kinds on

Philharmonic named after D.D. Shostakovich

PHILHARMONIC, Saint Petersburg Academy, named after D.D. Shostakovich, the oldest state concert establishment. Created in 1921 on the foundation of the former Court Orchestra (until 1896 the Court Chorus

Philharmonic Society

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, a musical, educational and trustee society, organisation of St. Petersburg professional musicians. It was established in 1802 as a charitable organisation, called the Aid Fund of Musicians’ Widows

Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PHYSICAL INSTITUTE, located at 7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, was established in 1725 as part of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences as the Physics Study (before 1912)

Pimenov N.S. (1812-1864), sculptor

PIMENOV Nikolay Stepanovich (1812 - 1864, St. Petersburg), sculptor, the son of S. S. Pimenov. In 1824-33, studied at the Academy of Arts under his father and under S. I. Galberg

Pimenov S.S. (1784-1833), sculptor

PIMENOV Stepan Stepanovich (1784 - 1833, St. Petersburg), sculptor. Father of N.S. Pimenov. Studied at the Academy of Arts (1795-1803) under M.I. Kozlovsky and I.P. Prokofyev

Pioneering Builders of Petersburg, Monument to the

PIONEERING BUILDERS OF PETERSBURG, MONUMENT TO THE, unveiled on 16 October 1995 in the park on Lesnoy Avenue, next to St. Sampson Cathedral where the first city cemetreies, the Orthodox one and the German one used to be located