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                                                                                                  Alexy II (Ridiger Alexey Mikhailovich), Patriarch
                                                      
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                                                        1993 
                                                                           
                         
                        The Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize for creative contribution in the Russian culture and arts development was established. Founders of the Prize were  the All_Russian Museum of A.S
                                             
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                                                        1999 
                                                                           
                         
                        The year of the 200th birthday of A.S. Pushkin was announced by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as the International Year of Pushkin.  6 June was approved  as  a State Holiday, A.S
                                             
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                                                        Clerics of Novgorod and St. Petersburg (general article) 
                                                                           
                         
                        RULING CLERICS, members of the upper church hierarchy in the St. Petersburg Eparchy, consisting of bishops, archbishops and metropolitans. The Eparchy was known as the Eparchy of St. Petersburg and Schliesselburg (1742-70), St
                                             
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                                                        Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg 
                                                                           
                         
                        HONORARY CITIZEN OF ST. PETERSBURG, an honorary title conferred on people who made a considerable contribution to the development of the city. In 1866-1908, 7 persons were conferred this title (the conferring didn"t entail any material privileges or
                                             
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                                                        St. Petersburg Eparchy 
                                                                           
                         
                        ST. PETERSBURG EPARCHY, a territorial and administrative part of the Russian Orthodox Church. By decree of the Empress Elizaveta Petrovna the St. Petersburg Eparchy was separated from the Novgorod Eparchy on 1 September 1742. The bishop of St
                                             
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                                                        Theological Academy 
                                                                           
                         
                        THEOLOGICAL ACADEMY located at 17 Obvodny Canal Embankment, closed higher theological education institution. It was founded under Metropolitan Gavriil in 1797 as the Alexander Nevsky Theological Academy based on the Main Seminary and situated in
                                             
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