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 8
Pavel Fedotov
Russian painter
Savva Chevakinsky
Russian architect
Giacomo Quarenghi
Italian architect
Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Sculptor
Auguste de Montferrand
French architect
Ivan Starov
Architect
Andrey Voronikhin
Russian architect
Willgodt Theophil Odhner
Swedish engineer
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk
Physicist
Vladimir Fock
Physicist
Taras Shevchenko
Poet
Stepan Krasheninnikov
Russian explorer
Eduard Khil
Soviet-Russian baritone
Timur Novikov
Russian visual artist
Xenia of Saint Petersburg
Cesare Pugni
Italian composer
Nikolay Kostomarov
Historian
Andrey Markov
Russian mathematician
Ludvig Faddeev
Russian mathematician
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Russian mathematician
Nadezhda Ossipovna Gannibal
Alexander Pushkin's mother
Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva
Russian nanny
Ivan Gannibal
Russian military leader
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Russian conductor
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
Russian composer
Alexander Bezborodko
Former Grand Chancellor of Russian Empire
Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov
Russian statesman
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
German political figure
Alexei Razumovsky
Russian cossack
Boris Kornilov
Russian-Soviet poet
Vlas Doroshevich
Journalist
Vladimir Nikolayevich Myasishchev
Soviet psychologist
Alexei Alexeyevich Ukhtomsky
Russian-Soviet physiologist
Victor Ewald
Engineer
N. F. Dubrovin
Historian
Nikolai Koltsov
Biologist
Stanisław August Poniatowski
King of Poland
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia
Valery Gavrilin
Musical composer
Konstantin Kavelin
Russian historian
Valeriya Kiselyova
Actor
Lev Milinder
Actor
Kirill Laskari
Screenwriter
Lev Berg
Geographer
Abram Ioffe
Physicist
Irina Odoyevtseva
Poet
Zinovy Rozhestvensky
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