st. petersburg

     

Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг (help·info), tr.: Sankt-Peterburg, Russian pronunciation: [sankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) is a city an a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924) and Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991). It is informally known as Piter (Пи́тер).

Trivia about st. petersburg

  • In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city
  • In the 19th century French choreographer Charles Didelot headed this Russian city's ballet company
  • A retirement city in Florida, or a retired capital of Russia
  • The Russian czar founded this city in 1703 as his "window on Europe"
  • Peter Demens, who built a railroad to this Florida city, named it for his hometown in Russia
  • This U.S. city, not the Russian one it's named for, is "The Shuffleboard Capital of the World"
  • Riga,St. Petersburg,Vilnius
  • In 1712 the capital of Russia was moved to this city later named Leningrad
  • Alfred Nobel was raised in this Russian city, then the capital, & also went to college there
  • In a runup to the revolution, deadly food riots broke out in this Russian city on March 8, 1917
  • The Pier, which juts almost a half mile into Tampa Bay, is the center of this city's tourist life
  • In 1881 Czar Alexander II was blown up in this city, his capital
  • This Florida city was named for a city in Russia
  • Leningrad
  • Catherine the Great began the collection of art housed at this city's Hermitage
  • From 1712 to 1918, this metropolis served as Russia's capital city
  • In 1914 the world's first scheduled airline service began between Tampa & this city across the bay
  • Wanting to Westernize Russia, Czar Peter the Great moved the capital west to this city in 1712
  • Located on the Gulf of Finland, it was capital of Russia for 2 centuries
  • Based on the home of a Russian fairy tale character, the cabin here weighs 13 tons & is near this city, formerly Leningrad
  • In 1703 this city on the Neva River became Russia's first built in imitation of western European cities
  • The novel opens at a party given by Anna Pavlova in this city, the capital at the time
  • "Russian Ark" follows a man through 300 years of history as he walks through this city's Hermitage Museum
  • A branch campus of the University of Southern Florida
  • This Florida city was named by a railroad official for his boyhood home in Russia
  • Florida's highest circulation newspaper is this Gulf Coast city's Times, with about 350,000 daily copies sold
  • An 1837 fire destroyed this city's Winter Palace, but the Hermitage's treasures were saved
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment"