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 died in Saint Petersburg (First 49 people) - Page 37
Santeri Nuorteva
Finnish author
Filipp Gorelenko
General
Valerian Frolov
Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke
Russian navigator
Antoni Czajkowski
Polish poet
Friedrich von Rüdiger
Military officer
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Russian screenwriter
Fyodor Dubasov
Elizaveta Petrovna
Empress of Russia
Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia
Playwright
Vera Krasovskaya
Russian ballet dancer
Nikolay Ivanovich Bystrov
Scientist
Vasilīĭ Markovich Florinskīĭ
Writer
Aleksandr Tur
Scientist
Fyodor Romodanovsky
Ivan Barchenko-Yemelyanov
Military officer
Aleksandr Vitberg
Russian architect
Valentin Bianchi
Ornithologist
Ayan Shakhmaliyeva
Film director
Nikolay Gredeskul
Politician
Nikolay Gretsch
Russian journalist
Victor Napoleon Procopé
Author
R. V. Kinzhalov
Russian historian
Johann Amman
Swiss botanist
Nikolay Borozdin
Military personnel
Veniamin Belkin
Artist
Vasily Belyashin
Artist
Anatoli Abramov
Actor
Alexander Timashev
Former Minister of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Empire
Dmitri Konovalov
Chemist
Artyom Anchukov
Actor
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Panteleyev
Soviet-Russian soldier
Paul Du Chaillu
French-American traveler
Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim
Russian botanist
Aleksandr Babaev
Aircraft pilot
Georg Christoph Grooth
Painter
Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov
Nikolai Babasyuk
Artist
Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo
Russian Politician
Nina Dulkevitsch
Soviet singer
Carl Bernhard von Trinius
German botanist
Nikolay Leshchenko
Film director
Alexander Popov
DJ
Lyubov Blok
Author
Avdotya Panaeva
Russian novelist
Elena Denisyeva
Writer
Elizaveta Moritsovna Geynrikh
Aleksandr Kuprin's wife
