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Smolenskoe Cemeteries
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Alms-houses (entry)
ALMS-HOUSES, boarding institutions for poor, ill and aged people. The first alms-houses set up in St. Petersburg were attached to churches, the first ones being theHoly Ascension Church in Shpalernaya Street (1713) and St
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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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Cemetery Churches (entry)
CEMETERY CHURCHES built in municipal cemeteries from the middle of the 18th century. In 1759-1760, the wooden Church of Our Lady of Smolensk was erected at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery (see Smolenskoe Cemeteries); in 1756-1759
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Decembrists
DECEMBRISTS, members of secret societies, mainly, Guard officers and Masonic lodge members, who excited a rebellion against autocracy and serfdom in December 1825 (hence the name). Many of the future Decembrists were born in St
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Smolenka, river
SMOLENKA, a river, which branches off the Malaya Neva from the left, below Tuchkov Bridge, and flows into the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. The Smolenka separates Vasilievsky Island from Dekabristov Island. The river is 3.3 kilometres long
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Smolenskoe Field, area
SMOLENSKOE FIELD, the historical name of the area located in the central part of Vasilievsky Island, between Nineteenth Line in the east, Smolenskoe Cemetery (hence the name) in the north and the harbour in the east
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Vasileostrovsky District
VASILEOSTROVSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 55 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island) Its present-day borders were formed in 1917 (the western part was a separate
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Vasilievsky Island
VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, the largest island in the estuary of the Neva 1,090 hectares in area. The island is washed by the Bolshaya Neva in the south and the Malaya Neva in the northeast
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