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                                                                                                  Blumentrost Lavrenty Lavrentievich
                                                      
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                                                        Blumentrost L. L. (1692-1755), court physician, first President of the Petersburg Academy of Science 
                                                                           
                         
                        BLUMENTROST Lavrenty Lavrentievich (1692-1755, St. Petersburg), court physician, first President of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He studied at the Universities of Halle, Oxford, and Leiden and earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine (1713)
                                             
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                                                        Cemeteries (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        CEMETERIES. Even before the foundation of St. Petersburg there were several necropolises on the location of the future city: the records of the beginning of the 18th century indicate a Finnish-Swedish cemetery at Elagin (Aptekarsky) Island
                                             
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                                                        Millionnaya Street 
                                                                           
                         
                        MILLIONNAYA STREET [until 1738 - German settlement, until the middle of the 18th century - Bolshaya Nemetskaya Street, in the 1740-1800s - Bolshaya Millionnaya Street, in 1918-91 - Khalturina Street, after worker-revolutionary S.N
                                             
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                                                        Russian Academy of Sciences 
                                                                           
                         
                        RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, the highest scientific institution in Russia. It was founded in St. Petersburg after Emperor Peter the Great's project for the academy was approved by the Senate on 28 January 1724
                                             
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                                                        St. Sampson’s Cathedral 
                                                                           
                         
                        ST SAMPSON’S CATHEDRAL, located at 41 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue. An architectural monument, one of the oldest churches of St. Petersburg. Constructed in 1728-40 in the Baroque style of Anna Ioannovna on the site of a wooden church
                                             
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