Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg is a Russian port city on the Baltic Sea. It was the imperial capital for 2 centuries, having been founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, subject of the city's iconic “Bronze Horseman” statue. It remains Russia's cultural center, with venues such as the Mariinsky Theatre hosting opera and ballet, and the State Russian Museum showcasing Russian art, from Orthodox icon paintings to Kandinsky works. ― Google
People born in Saint Petersburg (First 49 people) - Page 26
Mikhail Butusov
Football player
Eduard Rozovsky
Soviet cinematographer
Larissa Lezhnina
Dancer
Ninel Kurgapkina
Russian ballerina
Irina Kolpakova
Soviet ballet dancer
Sergei Yakhontov
Russian linguist
Aleksandra Metalnikova
Actress
Sergei Tchoban
German architect
Maimuna
Belarusian Violinist
Alexander Alexeyev
Ice hockey defenceman
Roman Zhilkin
Russian actor
Lev Loseff
Russian poet
Yekaterina Dyachenko
Olympic athlete
Halina Czengery
Actress
Leopold Engel
German writer
Lyubov Yegorova
Olympic athlete
Otto von Böhtlingk
German-Russian author
Nataliya Pravdina
Author
Evgeny Sklyanin
Mathematician
M. Sh Birman
Russian-Soviet mathematician
Vitaly Bujanovsky
Russian musician
Vladimir Gel'man
Russian political scientist
Andrews Engelmann
Actor
G. A. Gripenberg
Finnish diplomat
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Knyazhnin
Military officer
Ekaterina Troubetskoy
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bestuzhev
Biographer
Nikolay Bestuzhev
Writer
Ivan Osterman
Former Presidents of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire
Mikhail Belyaev
Former Chief of the General Staff
Natalia Zabila
Author
Anatoly Naiman
Russian poet
Pavel Wolberg
Visual artist
Shimon Iakerson
Scholar
Gary Shteyngart
American writer
Vladimir Delman
Russian conductor
Alex Budovsky
Film director
Boris Fomin
Musician
Yevgeniya Mravina
Russian soprano
Alexander Serov
Russian composer
Bogomir Korsov
Russian baritone
Aleksandr Verzhbilovich
Cellist
Anri Volokhonsky
Russian poet
Nina Gavrylyuk
Russian-Soviet olympic athlete
Olga Samoshina
Actress
Alexander Gorsky
Russian choreographer
Marie Petipa
Ballet dancer ‧ Marius Petipa's daughter
