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Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city . The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of ...
History of Saint Petersburg. The city of Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703. It became the capital of the Russian Empire and remained as such for more than two hundred years (1712–1728, 1732–1918). Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the October Coup.
The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Государственный Эрмитаж, romanized: Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, IPA: [ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn (ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ]) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired a collection of paintings from the Berlin ...
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject located in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia. It stands at the mouth of the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland (part of the Baltic Sea ). The area of the city of Saint Petersburg proper is 605.8 km 2 (233.9 sq mi). As a federal subject Saint Petersburg contains, besides ...
The Catherine Palace ( Russian: Екатерининский дворец, romanized : Yekaterininskiy dvorets) is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo ( Pushkin ), located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars. The palace is part of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and ...
The Winter Palace [1] is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, previous emperors, from 1732 to 1917. The palace and its precincts now house the Hermitage Museum. Floor area is 233,345 square metres. (It has been calculated that the palace contains 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and ...
1716 – Catholic Church of St. Catherine founded. 1718 – Saint Petersburg Police established. 1719 – Summer Garden laid out. 1720. Hermitage Bridge opens. New Holland Island created. 1721 – Ligovsky Canal constructed. 1724. Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded.
White-haired Maslov, 77, stood in a glass box in the St Petersburg courtroom and listened attentively without showing emotion, as the judge read the verdict after a trial that was closed to the press.