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Search result: alphabet - G
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Grenadiers Life Guards Regiment
GRENADIERS LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, Guards Infantry Regiment, formed in 1756, from 1775 – Life Grenadier Regiment, in 1813 designated Grenadiers Life Guards Regiment and assigned to the New Guards, in 1831 -assigned to the Old Guards
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Gresser P.A., Chief Policeman, Head of City Administration 1882-92
GRESSER Peter Apollonovich (1833-1892, St. Petersburg), statesman, Lieutenant General (1883). Graduated from the First Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg (1850), and served in the Caucasus
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Grevs I.M. (1860-1941), historian, regional ethnographer
GREVS Ivan Mikhailovich (1860-1941), historian, regional ethnographer, pedagogue and public figure. Lived in St. Petersburg since 1873. Grevs graduated from Larin Gymnasium (1879) and the Department of History and Philology of St
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Griboedov A.S. (1794 or 1795 – 1829), writer, diplomat
GRIBOEDOV Alexander Sergeevich (1794 or 1795-1829), writer, musician and diplomat. Held the rank of civil counsellor and was a Minister Resident in Persia (1828)
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Griboyedova Canal
GRIBOYEDOVA CANAL (the Ekaterininsky Canal in 1767-1923) starts from the Moika River at the Field of Mars and flows into the Fontanka River at Malo-Kalinkin Bridge. It is 5 km long and 32 meters wide with water flow of 3.1 - 3.4 m3
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Grigorovich D.V. (1822-1899), writer
GRIGOROVICH Dmitry Vasilievich (1822-1899, St. Petersburg), prose writer, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1888). Studied in a private boarding schools of Moscow
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Grigory (Chukov) (1870-1955), Metropolitan
GRIGORY (born Nikolay Kirillovich Chukov) (1870-1955), religious figure. After graduating from St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1895, he took the post of the eparchial superintendent for theological schools of Olonets Eparchy
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Grigoryev A.A. (1822-1864), critic, poet
GRIGORYEV Apollon Alexandrovich (1822-1864, St. Petersburg), poet, prose writer, literary and theatre critic, collegiate assessor (1857). A graduate of the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, he lived in St
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Grigoryev Boris Dmitrievich (1886-1939), artist
GRIGORYEV Boris Dmitrievich (1886-1939), artist. He studied at the Stroganov Art School under Dmitry Shcherbinovsky (1903-07), in the Academy of Arts under Alexander Kiselev and Dmitry Kardovsky (1907-13)
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Grilles (entry)
GRILLES. St. Petersburg boasts a number of unique metal grilles, created in the course of three centuries. Wrought grilles of bars with (sometimes gilded) decorative figures made from flat iron bars (the grille of the Ekaterininsky (Catherine)
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Grimm D.I., Grimm G.D., Grimm G.G., architects
GRIMMS, a dynasty of architects, theorists, art historians and teachers. David Ivanovich Grimm (1823, St. Petersburg - 1898), architect, representative of Eclecticism, master of the Russo-Byzantine style, historian of Caucasian Architecture
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Grin A.S. (1880-1932), writer
GRIN (real name Grinevsky) Alexander Stepanovich (1880-1932), writer. For the first time came to St. Petersburg either in 1905 or in 1906 illegally, drifted together with A. I. Kuprin, who introduced him into literary circles
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Grivtsova Lane
GRIVTSOVA LANE, running from the Moyka River Embankment to Sennaya Square. Starting in 1739, the lane was known as Malaya Sarskaya Street. From the 1770s to 1871, the section extending to the Ekaterininsky Canal was called Konny Lane
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Grot Y.K., (1812-1893), linguist
GROT Yakov Karlovich (1812 - 1893, St. Petersburg), philologist, historian, Full Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1855). Graduated from the Tsarskoselsky Lyceum in 1832. Professor at the Alexandrovsky Lyceum (1853-62)
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Gryazny Island
GRYAZNY ISLAND situated between the Olkhovka River and the Ekaterinhofka River, south of where the Tarakanovka River flows into the latter. The name dates back to 1838
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Guardhouse (general article)
GUARDHOUSE (Gauptvahta, from German Haupt Wachte - main guard), a military prison for military administrative temporary confinement of servicemen for prejudicial conduct to military discipline
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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
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Guards Artillery
GUARDS ARTILLERY, general name for artillery units and formations, consisting of the Guards. The Life Guards of the 1st, 2nd and Horse Artillery Brigades (each of which including 6 batteries with 6-8 pieces in each one)
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Guards' Case
GUARDS' CASE (Spring case), one from the series of cases fabricated by the Joint State Political Administration Board against former officers of Imperial and White Armies
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Guards Company
GUARDS COMPANY, guards infantry sub-division, raised in 1810 from the ranks of the Court Rover and Yacht Crew. Participated in the wars with France 1812-14, Russo-Turkish wars of 1828-29 and 1877-78, in suppressing the Polish uprising of 1830-31
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Guards Corps Staff
GUARDS CORPS STAFF, the organisational authority of the guards. Set up in the late 18th century as the Chancellery of the Guards Commander, from 1817, known as the Guards General Staff, and from 1828 as the Staff of the Guards Commander
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Guards Posts
GUARDS POSTS, military posts, regularly taken by the guards regiments. In the 18th century Guards sentries patrolled the Streets to control order, guarded public institutions, city gates, state property depositories, etc
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Guards Rifle Brigade
GUARDS RIFLE BRIGADE, Guards infantry formation. Consisted of four rifle battalions (from 1911 - regiments). Was quartered in Tsarskoe Selo (Tsars' Village). His Majesty's 1st and 2nd Tsarskoselsky battalions were formed in 1856
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Guchkov A.I. (1862-1936), political and public figure
GUCHKOV Alexander Ivanovich (1862-1936), political and public figure, banker and businessman. Graduated from the History and Philology Department of Moscow University (1885), worked in local Moscow Government
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Guide books (entry)
GUIDE BOOKS, reference publications, containing information on the city geography, history, arts etc., aimed both at tourists and Petersburgers. In the 18th century there emerged foreign publications similar to guidebooks: in 1713 an anonymous
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Gukovsky G.A., (1902-1950), literature historian
GUKOVSKY Grigory Alexandrovich (1902 - 1950, St. Petersburg), literature historian, Ph.D. (Doctor of Philological Sciences, 1936). Graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Petrograd University in 1923
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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
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Gulyayev, Ivan Ivanovich (1922 – 1998)
Captain of the 2nd class I.I. Gulyayev, a commander of a submarine of the Northern Fleet, was awarded the rank of the Hero of the USSR and Order of Lenin and the medal “Gold Star” (No
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Gumilev L.N., (1912-1992), historian
GUMILEV Lev Nikolaevich (1912, Tsarskoe Selo - 1992, St. Petersburg), orientalist, ethnographer, Ph.D. (Doctor of Historical Sciences, 1961; and Geographical Sciences, defended his thesis in 1974
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Gumilev N.S. (1886-1921), poet
GUMILEV Nikolay Stepanovich (1886, Kronstadt - 1921, near St. Petersburg), poet, translator, critic. He spent his childhood in Tsarskoe Selo, from 1896 was in St. Petersburg, and studied at the Gymnasium of Y.G. Gurevich
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