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The subject index / Great Northern War of 1700-21
Apraksin P.M. (1659-1728), statesman

APRAKSIN Peter Matveevich (1659-1728), count (from 1710), statesman, acting secret councillor (1725), brother of F.M. Apraksin. In 1698-1708, he was a Novgorod Voevode (military commander)

Bruce Y.V. (1670-1735), warlord, statesman

BRUCE Yakov Villimovich (James Daniel) (1670-1735), count (1721), state and war figure, general field marshal (1726). Brother of R.V. Bruce, close friend of Emperor Peter the Great's

Cabin of Peter the Great, museum

CABIN OF PETER THE GREAT (6 Petrovskaya Embankment), St. Petersburg's oldest building. The cabin, which consisted of two rooms separated by a hallway and a bedroom was constructed on 24-26.5

Decorative Monumental Sculpture (entry)

DECORATIVE MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE. The art of monumental sculpture dates back to the time of Peter the Great; its first examples appeared throughout St. Petersburg, at the Summer Garden and various suburb residences

Golitsyn M.M. (1675-1730), Field Marshal-General

GOLITSYN Mikhail Mikhailovich (1675-1730), Prince, military commander, Field Marshal General (1725). Commenced his military career as a private soldier of the Semenovsky Regiment

Golovkin G.I. (1660-1734), count, statesman

GOLOVKIN Gavriil Ivanovich (1660-1734, St. Petersburg), Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1707), Count of the Russian Empire (1709), diplomat, statesman, associate of Emperor Peter the Great (half-cousin of Tsarina Natalia Kirillovna, nee Naryshkina

Guards

GUARDS, life guards, elite, privileged military unit. The Russian Guards were established by Peter I in 1700, when the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments gained the title of life guards

Gulf of Finland

GULF OF FINLAND is the eastern part of the Baltic Sea running deep inland. The northern coast of the Gulf of Finland belongs to Finland; its southern part relates to Estonia and north-western and south eastern coasts are located in Russia

Ingermanland

INGERMANLAND (Swedish variant, Ingermanland; Russian variant, Izhorskaya Zemlya, or Ingria), a historic-cultural region including the Neva region, the Gulf of Finland shore, and the southwestern of Ladoga Region

Izhora, river

IZHORA, also known as Inger river, a tributary to the Neva. The river draws its water through the Izhora Hills from a spring near Skvoritsa village of Gatchinsky District

Karelian Isthmus

KARELIAN ISTHMUS, a historic and geographical region between the Gulf of Finland and Ladoga Lake, in the south bounded by the Neva River, in the north - by a datum line linking Vyborg Bay of the Baltic Sea and Lekhmalakhti Bay north-westwards from

Kronstadt

KRONSTADT, a town on Kotlin Island, 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg. The town's history traces back to a sea fort called Kronslot built in the winter of 1703-04. By May 1704, two batteries were constructed along the south bank

Kronstadt Fortress

KRONSTADT FORTRESS, a complex of fortifications supported by Kotlin Island, intended to defend St. Petersburg from the enemy naval attacks from the Gulf of Finland, the largest naval construction in the pre-revolutionary Russia

Lomonosovsky District

LOMONOSOVSKY DISTRICT, an administrative and territorial unit of St. Petersburg, with its administration located in the town of Lomonosov, at 42 Dvortsovy Avenue

Matisov Island

MATISOV ISLAND situated between the Bolshaya Neva River, Moika River, and Pryazhka River. It is 26 hectares in area, 700 metres long, and 500 metres wide. In the early 18th century, it was called Kalasaari translated as Sloping Island from Finnish

Military Personnel

MILITARY PERSONNEL, socio-professional group forming a part of the St. Petersburg population, uniting individuals in military service. Military personnel made up a meaningful part of the city's population from the outset of its foundation

Peter the Great (1672-1725), Emperor

Peter the Great (Peter I) (b. 1672, d. 1725 in St. Petersburg), Tsar (from 1682) and Emperor (from 1721) of Russia, founder of St. Petersburg. Peter was the son of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich (born from his second marriage) and N. K. Naryshkina

The Life-Guards Keksgolm Regiment

The Life-Guards Keksgolm Regiment is one of the oldest regiments of the Russian Army. Only three regiments of the Foot Guards were established by Peter the Great – Preobrazhensky, Semenovsky and Keksgolm Regiments