hidden Icons, revered and miracle-working Icons, revered and miracle-working. The Miracle-Working Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, according to the legend , was painted by Apostle Luke. It was moved from Jerusalem to Constantinopole, where it dissappeared in 1383 and it appeared above... more

hidden Ingermanlandia INGERMANLANDIA (Swed. Ingermanland, Rus. Izhora Land or Ingria), historic and cultural region in the western part of the Leningrad Oblast (Kingisepp, Volosovo, Lomonosov, Vsevolozhsk, Gatchina, Tosno, western part of Kirovsk Districts.) The western... more

hidden Isidor (Nikolsky), (1729 - 1892), metropolitan, clergy figure Isidor (Nikolsky Iakov Sergeyevich; 1799–1892), the Metropolitan.He was borne in the deacon family. He graduated from the ecclesiastical college and the seminary in Tula (1821), then he graduated from the ecclesiastical academy in St Petersburg... more

hidden Ivangorod, town IVANGOROD, a town in Kingisepp District. Population: 11,200. Located at the western border of Leningrad Oblast. Established in1492, when a stone fortress named in honor of Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow and All Russia (see Ivangorod Fortress) was... more

hidden Narova River, the NAROVA (Narva, obsolete Estonian Alukse), river. Length: 77 km. Catchment area: 56,200 sq. km. Flow rate: 399 cu. m/s. It flows out of Lake Chudskoye and it flows into the Narva Bay of the Baltic Sea. N. is a borderline between Russian Federation... more

hidden Periodicals Periodical press. Till 1917 the periodical press was not developed good in the St. Petersburg Gubernia. The newspaper "Cankt Peterburgskiye vedomosti" ("The St. Petersburg Bulletin", 1838-1916) and the weekly magazine "Sankt Peterburgsky dukhovny... more

hidden "Prinevsky Krai", a newspaper "Prinevsky Kray" ("Lands Near the River Neva"), a newspaper of the North-West Army of General N.N. Yudenich. The newspaper was an agitational and propagandistic anti-Bolshevistic edition that was destined for the civilian population in the... more

hidden Roads ROADS. Historically, the road network in the territory of Leningrad oblast has been developing unevenly: the regions east of the Volkhov River are worse provided with R. because the principal economic, military, and cultural centers have always been... more

hidden Typographical and Publishing Business Typography and Publishing was developed comparatively poor in St. Petersburg gubernia, it was determined with the closeness to St. Petersburg, one of the most large scale printing and publishing centre. In 1904 there was a printing house in towns of... more

hidden 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

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