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 3
Mikhail Botvinnik
Russian-Soviet chess grandmaster
Ivan Puni
Artist
Alexander Balunov
Musician
Jane Wolfe
American film actress
Ayn Rand
Writer
Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Mariya Putina
Russian endocrinologist
Nikolay Starikov
Russian writer
Daniele Amfitheatrof
Russian-Italian composer
Vitali Baganov
Actor
Oksana Akinshina
Russian actress
Alexei Kosygin
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Anton Yelchin
American actor
George Balanchine
Choreographer
Irina Baronova
Russian ballet dancer
Katya Jones
Russian dancer
Sergei Krikalev
Russian mechanical engineer
George Sanders
British actor
Konstantin Khabensky
Russian actor
Margarita Levieva
American actress
Kirill Shamalov
Russian businessman
Igor Sechin
Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin
Alexander Smallens
American conductor
Aleksandr Blok
Russian poet
Igor Kon
Soviet-Russian philosopher
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
Grand Duchess of Russia
Yevgeny Fyodorov
Politician
Konstantin Dushenov
Russian-Soviet journalist
Olga Zabelinskaya
Russian-Uzbekistani cyclist
Anatole de Grunwald
Russian-British film producer
Andre Kostelanetz
American conductor
Igor Bobrin
Figure skater
Ksenia Stolbova
Figure skater
Alexandra Stepanova
Russian ice dancer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet-Russian composer
Tatyana McFadden
American athlete
Liubov Gurevich
Editor
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Russian poet
Korney Chukovsky
Poet
Joseph Brodsky
American poet
Adolfo Hohenstein
German painter
Emil Oskar Nobel
Alfred Nobel's brother
MC Vspishkin
Russian-Soviet disc jockey
Richard Marner
Actor
