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Bezzabotnaya (The Careless), a country estate
Bezzabotnaya (The Careless), a country estate (Gorbunki Village, the Lomonosov District). The name (according to the name of the residence of Frederick II in Potsdam Sans-Souci; "sans souc" was translated from French as "careless") was given by O.A.... more


Colonists (immigrants in Tsar Russia)
Colonists are a class group existed in the 18th - the early 20th century. Catherine II promulgated manifestoes (dated 4 December 1762 and 22 July 1763) allowed to foreigners to settle in Russia for rapid settlement of lands and development of... more


Dylitsi, a country estate
Dylitsi (Yelizavetino), a country estate (the settlement of Yelizavetino, the Gatchina district). "The village of Vsdylitsi" of the Yegoryevsky Vzdylitsky pogost was firstly mentioned in the scribe book of 1499-1500. In 1712 Peter I granted these... more


Gatchina, town
GATCHINA (Trotsk in 1923-27, Krasnogvardeisk in 1927-44), a town in Leningrad Oblast, adm. center of Gatchina District. Population: 82,900 (the largest town in the Leningrad Oblast.) First mentioned in the Novgorod scribe roll of 1499 -1500 as... more


Gavriil (Petrov-Shaposhnikov) (1730-1801), metropolitan, clergy figure
Gavriil (Petr Petrovich Petrov-Shaposhnikov; 1730-1803), a metropolitan, clergy figure. P.P. Petrov-Shaposhnikov was born in the famoly of a priest, in 1753 he was graduated from the Slave-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow. Since 1754 he worked in the... more


Grimm, David Ivanovich (1823-1898), an architect
David Ivanovich Grimm (1823-1898), an architect. From 1841 to 1848 D.I. Grimm learned at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, his teacher was A.P. Bryullov. From 1857 to 1863 he taught at the St. Petersburg Building College. From 1859 he taught at... more


Islam
Islam. Devotees of Islam, mainly tatars, appeared in the St Peresburg Guberniya in the early 18th с, when the working people, from the central regions of Russia, were assembled for building the new capital city according to the order of Peter I.... more


Kingisepp District coat of arms and flag, the
The Kingisepp District's coat of arms and flag are the official symbols which were approved with the decision of the Representative Assembly of the Municipal Union of 20 February 2002, No. 95-s. The heraldic description of the coat of arm: “Within... more


Luga District
LUGA DISTRICT, municipal entity. Population: 44,600. Area: 5993.1 sq. km. Located in the south of Leningrad Oblast. In the west, it borders Slantsy District, in the north, Volosovo, Gatchina, and Tosno Districts of Leningrad Oblast; in the east,... more


Luga, town
LUGA, town, adm. center of Luga District. Located 142 km (139 by railway) south of St. Petersburg on the Luga River, after which it was given its name. Population: 40,400. The town is a junction of motor and railroad routes to St. Petersburg,... more


Lutheranism
Lutheranism. The first Lutheran parish was formed in Koporye in 1590 in the territory of the contemporary Leningrad Oblast. The dissemination of Lutheranism began in Russia after the annexation of the lands of the Neva River by Sweden in 1617. ... more


Munnich, Christophor Antonovich (Burkhard Christof) (1683-1767), Count, military figure, an architect
Christophor Antonovich (Burkhard Christoph) Munnich (1683-1767), Count (1728), Field-Marshal - General (1732), a statesman and military figure. Munnich was born in Neuenhuntorf, Oldenburg, Denmark. From 1721 he was on the Russian service. C.A.... more


Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1744-1818), a literary man
Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1744-1818), a writer, journalist, publisher. He attended the High School at the Moscow University during 1756-1759. From 1762 Novikov surved in the Life Guard Izmailovsky Regiment. During 1767-1768 Novikov was the... more


Old Belief
Old Belief. The movement of the Russian Orthodox (Old Belivers, ""schimatics"") having the rites which existed before the reforms of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon (the middle of the 17th c). Old Belief are divided into the Popovtsy... more


Orthodox monasteries
The Othodox monasteries. The oldest monasteries located on the territory of the Leningrad Oblast - the Monastery of the Dormition, the Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Zastenny Monastery of St. George in Ladoga were founded... more


Otradnoye Town coat of arms and flag, the
The Otradnoye Town's coat of arms and flag are the official approved symbols of the Municipal Union “Otradnoye gorodskoe poselenie” (the urban-type settlement of Otradnoye) (they were approved with the decision of the Soviet of Deputies of the... more


Otradnoye, town
OTRADNOYE, a town in Kirovsk District, on the left bank of the Neva upstream of the influx of the Tosna. Population: 21,600. It was established on Oct. 24, 1970 by integrating Ivanovskoye (established in 1957) and Otradnoye (established in 1940)... more


Pella, a palace ensemble
Pella is a palace ensemble (now within the precincts of the town of Otradnoye of the Kirovsk District). It was created by the order of Empress Katherine II on the left bank of the Neva River at the Ivanovsky rapids in the lands bought in 1784 from... more


Post stations
Post stations. On the post roads which were led from Saint-Petersburg to Yamburg, Moscow and Shlisselburg, since 1722 stage yards (post stations) with stables appeared which were at 20-30 versts distance in adapted peasant's log hut. When in 1785 in... more


Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble
The Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble (the settlement of Ropsha, the Lomonosov District). It is a building of architectural and historic interest and landscape architecture art of the 18th century. It is one of palace-and-park ensembles that were... more


Rozhdestvenno, village
ROZHDESTVENO, a village in Gatchina District. Population: 1900. Located on the Kiev Highway route at the interfluve of the Oredezh and Gryaznaya Rivers. Medieval burial mounds have been discovered in the environs of R. It is mentioned in Novgorod’s... more


Shlisselburg Town coat of arms, the
The Shlisselburg Town's coat of arms is the official symbol approved with the decision of the Representative Assembly of the town of Shlisselburg (of the second calling) of 7 February 1997 under the No2/7 “O gerbe g. Shlisselburg” (About the... more


Shubin, Fedot Ivanovich (1740 - 1805), a sculptor
SHUBIN (SHUBNOY), Fyodot Ivanovich (1740–1805), a sculptor. He lived in St.Petersburg since 1759. In the period 1761-67 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, his teacher was H.F. Gillet. Shubin lived in Paris (1767-70) and in Rome (1770-72)... more


Sologubovka, settlement
SOLOGUBOVKA, a village in Kirovsk District. Population: 361. Located on the right bank of the Mga River. North-east of S. is the railway station of the same name of the Mga-Kirishi line (opened in 1919). In the 19th c. it was the Uspenskaya estate.... more


Starov, Ivan Yegorovich (1745 - 1808), an architect
Ivan Yegorovich Starov (1745 - 1808), an architect, a founder of the Russian classicism style. He learned at the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts, continued the education in France and Italy. In 1769 Starov became an academician and from 1794 he... more


Syas Canals , the
SYAS CANALS. They connect the mouths of the Volkhov and Syas Rivers, and extend along the south-eastern coast of Lake Ladoga, being an extension of the Ladoga Canals. Currently they are in Volkhov District, from Nemyatovo village to Syasstroy town.... more


The Transfiguration Cathedral (Vyborg Town)
The Cathedral of the Transfiguration Christ (the town of Vyborg, 1 Teatralny Square). The decision about building a new Russian church was taken in summer 1783 during staying Empress Catherine II in the town of Vyborg. A draft was presumably done... more


The Cathedral of St. Catherine, Great Martyr (Kingisepp Town)
The Cathedral of St. Catherine, the Great Martyr (Kingisepp Town, 6 Nikolayev Square). The stone cathedral was built in the main square of the town of Yamburg on the order of Empress Catherine II after in 1760 the fortress wooden cathedral od St.... more


The Lutheran Church of Sts. Peter and Paul (Vyborg Town)
The Lutheran Church of SS. Peter and Paul (Vyborg Town, 6 Pionerskaya Square). A german community has been being in Vyborg Town since the middle of the 17th century, but it has not its own church. At first public worships were performed in a hall... more


Tikhvin Dormition Convent, the
The Tikhvin Dormition Convent (the town of Tikhvin). The parish wooden church of the Dormition of the Mother of God was built on the Tikhvinka River bank in the memory of the Finding of the miracle-working icon of the Mother of God the Hodigitria... more


v. Sankt-Peterburg Gubernia, the
ST. PETERSBURG GUBERNIA, historic adm. and territorial unit of Russia. Established in 1708 by the decree of Peter I subdividing Russia into eight gubernias. It included the areas of the current Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, and Tver Oblasts, and... more


Vyborg Gubernia, the
VYBORG GUBERNIA, historic adm. and territorial unit of Russia and Finland. It occupied the northern part of the Karelian Isthmus, Northern Coast of Ladoga, south-east of the current Finland. In the Middle Ages, V. G. was the places of ethnogenesis... more


Yamgorod Fortress
Yamgorod Fortress (Kingisepp, in the right bank of the Luga River). The Yam fortress was built in 1384 during 33 days under the direction of Novgorod posadniks. It controlled water and land passes from Novgorod to port towns of Baltic. It repelled... more





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