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    of Catherine the Great from the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg," Antiques & Collecting Magazine 106, no. 3, 62. Norman 1997, p. 23 Norman 1997...
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    Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva...
    206 KB (18,407 words) - 08:41, 11 November 2024
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    unhappy and the couple began to live separately. Tatiana left court again and devoted herself to raising her son. She hosted the famous St. Petersburg salon...
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    Alexander von Middendorff (category Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences)
    August 1815 in St. Petersburg, but could not be baptized until six months later in the Estonian Lutheran Congregation of St. Petersburg, as the German...
    12 KB (1,028 words) - 17:22, 20 October 2024
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    and then as ambassador to Athens and Saint Petersburg, on which posts he began collecting art. He grew to dislike the cold of Saint Petersburg and so...
    8 KB (765 words) - 13:25, 11 November 2024
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    Winter Palace (category Palaces in Saint Petersburg)
    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...
    85 KB (10,520 words) - 13:46, 3 November 2024
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    Nicholas Roerich (category Painters from Saint Petersburg)
    States and most other nations of the Pan-American Union in April 1935. Raised in late-19th-century St. Petersburg, Roerich enrolled simultaneously at St. Petersburg...
    41 KB (4,614 words) - 21:40, 20 October 2024
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    Catherine the Great (category Burials at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg)
    to Return to St. Petersburg." in Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2009) pp. 276–283. Robert Zaretsky, Catherine and Diderot: The...
    129 KB (15,671 words) - 20:41, 12 November 2024
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    resides in Saint-Petersburg. Jeff Koons's Pluto and Proserpina is an 11-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture with transparent colour coating and live flowering...
    24 KB (2,846 words) - 23:05, 25 October 2024
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    Robert Woods Bliss (category People from St. Louis)
    History of Dumbarton Oaks". A Home of the Humanities: The Collecting and Patronage of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. pp...
    13 KB (1,297 words) - 04:07, 7 September 2024
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    Duke planting one of the first specimens in the Imperial Garden in St. Petersburg. Empress Joséphine was a great lover of all art. Her great interest...
    52 KB (6,035 words) - 14:18, 14 October 2024
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    1926 in Pula and was buried in the cemetery in Rovigno d'Istria. His brother Hipolit Korwin-Milewski was active in politics and patronage of the arts....
    19 KB (2,270 words) - 00:29, 30 October 2024
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    personal patronage for mosaic works. Patriarch Irenj, asked by Putin's who would decorate the interior, answered "with God's help, we will do it and with...
    141 KB (17,121 words) - 20:47, 11 November 2024
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    connections to Moscow (531 km) and StPetersburg (189 km) by the federal highway M10. There are public buses to Saint Petersburg and other destinations. The...
    52 KB (5,991 words) - 21:51, 7 November 2024
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    “free Cossacks” and stated that he came to St. Petersburg in order to ask the Russian government to allow them to return to Russia and settle on the Black...
    20 KB (2,254 words) - 07:22, 30 October 2024
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    John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was a British Royal Navy officer, politician and peer. Jervis served throughout...
    98 KB (12,152 words) - 17:59, 7 November 2024
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    co-operative movement began offering trading stamps as a new means of allocating patronage dividends to its consumer members. Big Bear Stores - chain of supermarkets...
    19 KB (2,029 words) - 01:26, 25 August 2024
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    mercy of birds of prey. This painting, exhibited in St. Petersburg, shocked Russian civilians and stirred up national pride, following which Emperor Alexander...
    6 KB (648 words) - 14:53, 30 October 2024
  • Leo Bagrow (category Writers from Saint Petersburg)
    the history of geodesy and cartography in Saint Petersburg. By this time he had also begun publishing scholarly articles and receiving international...
    17 KB (2,059 words) - 01:02, 4 March 2024
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    Stockholm (category Coastal cities and towns in Sweden)
    royal patronage in Stockholm and the relative decline of Uppsala University. The Bible was translated into Swedish during the reign of Gustav Vasa, and he...
    158 KB (13,802 words) - 07:52, 8 November 2024
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