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 58
Stanislav Markov
Musical artist
Boris Prozorovsky
Composer
R. Rompe
German author
Maximilian von Montgelas
Author
Anatoli Bogdanov
Russian-Kazakhstani football player
Alexei Purin
Russian poet
Veniamin But
Soviet rower
Andrey Krusanov
Art historian
Igor Rudakov
Olympic athlete
Danila Shevchenko
Actor
Oleg Savelyev
Russian Politician
Ksenia Fedorova
Musician
Pavel Malkov
Film director
Olga Kobzar
Model
Victor Mollo
British journalist
Igor Maksimtsev
Rector of the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Nina Dulkevitsch
Soviet singer
Johan Kortman
Painter
Jurijs Žigajevs
Latvian former football player
Zhanna Sukhopolskaya
Actress
Carl Enckell
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Boris Selitsky
Russian weightlifter
N. D. Nikandrov
Russian scientist
Yevgeniya Polat
Andrey Borisenko
Russian cosmonaut
Valentin Serov
Russian painter
Maria Andreyeva
Russian-Soviet actress
Michael Antonov
Investor
Lyubov Blok
Author
Vladimir Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev's son
Vasily Mendeleev
Engineer
Yuri Nikolaevich Shamalov
President of Gazfond ‧ Kirill Shamalov's brother
Irene Lessing
Gregor Gysi's mother
Maria Shamkalian
Actor
Elena Perelman
Mathematician
Polina Knoroz
Russian olympic athlete
Dimitri de Grunwald
Russian-British film producer
William Gisborne
Former Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
Fedor Fedotov
Actor
Kizette De Lempicka-Foxhall
Tamara de Lempicka's daughter
Avdotya Panaeva
Russian novelist
Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's father
Maria Chukovskaya
Korney Chukovsky's daughter
Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff
Swedish physician
Yvan Wiazemsky
Anne Wiazemsky's father
Nika Dubrovsky
Artist
Anatoly Shalyto
Computer scientist
