Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
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Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
On 1 March 1881, Ignaty Grinevitsky, a member of the People's Will terrorist organization, let off a bomb in Yekaterininsky Canal Embankment and gravely wound Emperor Alexander II, who was on his way back from the parade in Mikhailovsky Manege. As early as in 15 days after the assassination, a temporary mobile chapel, designed by Leon Benois, was c...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
On 27 December 1727, Tsar Peter II granted land in a desert area near Nevsky Avenue, between Bolshaya Konjushennay and Malaya Konjushennaya Streets, to a German Lutheran Community.
The foundations of a church were laid on 29 June 1728, the SS. Peter and Paul's Day. The project was implemented by Carlo Giuseppe Trezzini.
On 14 (25) June 1730, ...