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Elizaveta Fedorovna, Grand Princess


1916

13 February. At the house of the literary critic and A.Akhmatova's true friend N.V. Nedobrovo Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova presented her "treasured black ring" to the artist Boris Anrep who was the addresse of many poems written by A. Akhmatova ...
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace

BELOSELSKY-BELOZERSKY PALACE (41 Nevsky Prospect), an architectural monument of the Eclectic style. Reconstructed from an 18th century Neoclassical residence in 1799-1800 for Princess A.G. Beloselskaya-Belozerskaya (architect F.I. Demertsov) ...
Hospices (common)

HOSPICES, institutions which render qualified comprehensive medical, psychological, and nursing care to terminal oncological patients. The House of Mercy for Women With Cancer, which opened in St ...
The Tsarskoye Selo Common Cemetery of World War I Heroes.

The first Common Cemetery of World War I heroes was founded in September 1914 according to the initiative of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. It occupies a plot near the Kazan Cemetery and was under the special patronage of the Empress ...