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    The Saint Petersburg Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Saint Petersburg. The governorate was composed of...
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    territories from Sweden following the Treaty of Åbo and parts of Saint Petersburg Governorate which were previously ceded by Sweden in 1721 as a result of...
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    was designated a governorate (Ingermanland Governorate in 1708–1710, Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1710–1914, Petrograd Governorate in 1914–1924, Leningrad...
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    friend, was the first Governor General of Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1703–1727. In 1724 St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences was established in the...
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    The Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Delegates (later the Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies) was a workers' council, or soviet, in Saint Petersburg in...
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  • military guberniyas. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general. Governorates-General were governed by governors-general...
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    from Saint Petersburg Governorate to Revel Governorate; Solikamsk and Vyatka Provinces were transferred from Siberia Governorate to Kazan Governorate; and...
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    Lapland and eastern part of Torne Valley. Governors of Saint Petersburg Governorate and Vyborg Governorate ruled Old Finland (predecessor of Province of Viipuri)...
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  • and Virumaa. At that time, the Narva region was merged with Saint Petersburg Governorate. These territories were conquered from Sweden during the Great...
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    governorate was located in the west of the Russian Empire and bordered (after 1796) Saint Petersburg Governorate in the north, Novgorod Governorate in...
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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...
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    Ingermanland Governorate under Governor General Alexander Menshikov. It was renamed Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1710 (the borders of that governorate, however...
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    Bloody Sunday (1905) (category Saint Petersburg Governorate)
    the series of events on Sunday, 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were...
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    first part of the Saint Petersburg Governorate, but in 1744 they were reconstituted with new conquests into the Russian Vyborg Governorate, which also became...
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    section between Saint Petersburg and Beloostrov (where Russian customs was situated in 1870–1939) was laid in Russia (Saint Petersburg Governorate). The Finlyandsky...
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    first part of the Saint Petersburg Governorate, but in 1744 they were reconstituted with new conquests into the Russian Vyborg Governorate, which also became...
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  • her own serfs, who operated in the Kursk, Yekaterinoslav, and Saint Petersburg Governorates. She owned households in the capital, and other estates in Pyataya...
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  • Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd (category Uezds of Saint Petersburg Governorate)
    the Saint Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Saint Petersburg...
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    of Golitsyn and field marshal. He was the General Governor of Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1780 to 1783. As was traditional for noble families, Golitsyn's...
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  • of 1897. Breakdown of population by mother tongue and districts in 50 Governorates of the European Russia", Demoscope Weekly [ru], ISSN 1726-2887, archived...
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    together with Narva county, which was separated from Saint Petersburg Governorate, Estonia Governorate was formed. During the reign of the Swedish kings...
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    Nikolay Rumyantsev (category People from Saint Petersburg Governorate)
    Никола́й Петро́вич Румя́нцев; 3 April 1754 – 3 January 1826), born in Saint Petersburg, was Russia's Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the Russian Empire...
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    Northwestern Army was a White Army that operated in the Pskov Governorate, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Estonia and Latvia during the Russian Civil War from...
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    of Saint Sabbas, first Archbishop of Serbia, by Sinan Pasha (1595) Apparition of Our Lady of Kazan in Aleksandrovka, Saint Petersburg Governorate (1826)...
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    This is a list of governorates of the Russian Empire (Russian: губерния, pre-1918: губернія, romanized: guberniya) established between the administrative...
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    Baltic Governorate-General until 1876. Governorate of Livonia bordered Governorate of Estonia to the north, Saint Petersburg and Pskov Governorates to the...
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    flatters me." Orest was born in the village of Nezhnovo in the Saint Petersburg Governorate on 24 March [O.S. 13 March] 1782. He was an illegitimate son...
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    by more people than the state language. Reval Governorate Riga Governorate Saint Petersburg Governorate Courland The English Cyclopaedia By Charles Knight...
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  • Novoladozhsky Uyezd (category Uezds of Saint Petersburg Governorate)
    subdivisions of the Saint Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative...
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    Ви́ктор Алексе́евич Бобро́в; 1842, Gatobuzhi, Saint Petersburg Governorate – 21 June 1918, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian watercolorist in the Academic...
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