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 40
Viktor Sadovsky
Film director
Tamara Rylova
Speed skater
Nina Kogan
Painter
Nadezhda Stasova
Julian Shchutsky
Sinologist
Olga Moiseyeva
Russian ballet dancer
Ignaty Krachkovsky
Author
Grigory Sologub
Musician
Georgy Firtich
Soviet-Russian composer
Stepan Vasiliyevich Voyevodsky
Ivan Kupreyanov
Konstantin Nilov
Military personnel
Pyotr Bezobrazov
German Okunev
Composer
Vasily Shorin
Military commander
Viktor Bulla
Russian photographer
Ivan Andreyev
Historian
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Bruevich
Engineer
Vladimir V. Kavrayskiy
Soviet geodesist
Teodor Janković-Mirijevski
Serbian author
Marco Coltellini
Italian librettist
Semyon Bobrov
Russian poet
Anastasiya Trubetskaya
Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov
Poet
Lazar Reznikov
Philosopher
Pyotr Zagorsky
Johann Busch
Tatyana Yusupova
Alexander Ivanovich Ribopier
Diplomat
Dmitry Lobanov-Rostovsky
General
Alexander Zarudny
Lawyer
Juliana de Almeida e Oyenhausen
Leonor de Almeida Portugal, Marquise of Alorna's daughter
Prince Teimuraz of Georgia
Author
Grigori Levitski
Astronomer
A. Budilovich
Slavicist
Karl Friedrich (Theodor) Waterstraat
German teacher
Boris Sokolov
Actor
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Pisemsky
Artist
Ivan Pelevin
Artist
Algirdas Paulavicius
Actor
Isaak Kopelyan
Artist
Gerasim Lebedev
Adventurer
Wilhelm von Lenz
Russian writer
Sergey Kostinsky
Astronomer
Marceli Nencki
Polish chemist
Auguste-Joseph Desarnod
French engraver
Fedor Solntsev
Painter
