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Peter III (1728-1762), the Emperor
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PETER III (1728-1762, Ropsha, St. Petersburg Province), Emperor (from 1761). Born Prince (from 1739, Duke) Karl Peter Ulrich von Holstein-Gottorp. Grandson of Emperor Peter the Great ...
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10 February. The Emperor III celebrated his birthday and he left Tsarskoye Selo on 13 February. He has never returned ...
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Araya F., (1709 - after 1775), composer
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ARAYA Francesco (1709 - after 1775), Italian composer, first foreign Court Kapellmeister, composer of the first opera staged in St. Petersburg (The Might of Love and Hatred, 1736), and the first opera in Russian (Tsefal and Prokris, libretto by A.P ...
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Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress
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Catherine II (1729-1796, St. Petersburg), Empress (from 1761), wife of Emperor Peter III (1745). Nee Sophie Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1744, coming to power by dethroning her husband (1762) ...
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Catherine II the Great, Alekseyevna (1729-1796, St. Petersburg), Empress
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Catherine II the Great, Alekseyevna (1729-1796, St. Petersburg), Empress from 1761.
Nee Sophie Friederike Auguste, Princess von Anhalt-Zerbst . In 1744 she came into Russia being the bride of the Heir Grand Duke Peter Fiodorovich (the future ...
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Cuirassier Life Guards His Majesty’s Regiment
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CUIRASSIER LIFE GUARDS HIS MAJESTY’S REGIMENT, Cavalry Guards Regiment, raised in 1702 as the Dragoon Prince Grigory Volkonsky’s Regiment, from 1708 Yaroslavsky Dragoon Regiment ...
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Khandoshkin I.E., (1747-1804), violinist, composer
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Khandoshkin Ivan Evstafyevich (1747, St. Petersburg [?] - 1804, St. Petersburg), master violinist, composer, pedagogue, son of a former serf of Count P.B. Sheremetyev, who was a musician at the Court of Grand Prince Peter Fedorovich ...
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LOMONOSOV (until 1948 Oranienbaum), a town and municipal unit within Saint Petersburg, the centre of Lomonosovsky District of the Leningrad Region, located 32 kilometres southwest of the city centre on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland ...
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Munnich B. K. (1683-1767), Engineer, Governor General 1728-34
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MUNNICH Christofor Antonovich (Burchard Kristoff) (1683-1767, St. Petersburg), Count (1728), statesman and military figure, General Field Marshal (1732). He was German by birth, came to Russian service in 1721 ...
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OLDENBURGSKY (v. Oldenburg), dukes and princes, the junior branch of a German landed estate. Several members of the family lived in Russia. George Ludwig Prince of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1763), Emperor Peter III"s uncle ...
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Oranienbaum, palace and park ensemble
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ORANIENBAUM, a palace and park ensemble (Lomonosov town) that started to form during the first quarter of the 18th century, when the country estate of A.D. Menshikov appeared on the coast of the Gulf of Finland 44 kilometres from St. Petersburg ...
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ORANIENBAUM, PARK MUSEUM, state in the town of Lomonosov, was established in 1918 in the territory of the palace and park ensemble of the same name. Oranienbaum was opened to visitors in 1922. The museum got its present-day name in 1993 ...
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PALACE COUPS is a term used for coups of the state from the 18th to the beginning of the 19th centuries, in which persons not possessing a formal right to Imperial power usurped it ...
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Pavel (Paul) I (1754-1801), Emperor
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PAVEL (PAUL) I (1754, St. Petersburg - 1801), Emperor (from 1796). Son of Emperor Peter III and Catherine II. His first wife was Augusta Wilhelmina Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt (Natalia Alexeevna upon conversion to Orthodoxy) (1755-76); his second ...
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Rinaldi А. (1709-1794), architect
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RINALDI Antonio (around 1709-1794), architect of Italian descent. Studied in Naples under L. Vanvitelli. From 1752 served under Hetman K.G. Razumovsky in Malorussia (Little Russia, otherwise known as Ukraine). Since 1754 resided in St ...
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The Palace Church of the Resurrection
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In the Tsarskoye Selo Palace of Tsarina Catherine Alexeyevna at first there was an camp private chapel of St. Catherine the Great Martyr. The main sight of this church was a carved iconostasis of dark blue colour ...
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Volkov F.G., (1729-1763), actor
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VOLKOV Fedor Grigorievich (1729-1763), actor, theatre worker. In 1754-56, studied at the Infantry Cadet Corps. In the 1740s, he established the first private theatre in Yaroslavl, which in 1750 became the resident public theatre ...
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VORONTSOV, a famous noble and princely family from the early 16th century. Several of them were closely associated with St. Petersburg. Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714-67) was a count (1744), statesman, diplomat ...
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