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21 unusual facts about Petersburg


Alaska Route 7

Another section of AK-7 is the Mitkoff Highway, traveling south from Petersburg to the southeast point of Mitkof Island.

Bessie A. Buchanan

Charles and Evelyn Allison moved to New York City from Petersburg, Virginia around the turn of the 20th Century.

Christian Meeting House

Christian Meeting House (Petersburg Christian Church) is a historic church meeting house at 6561 Tanner Street in Petersburg, Kentucky.

Daphne Maxwell Reid

With her husband, actor Tim Reid, she owns and operates New Millennium Studios in Petersburg, Virginia.

Glasspar

By the mid-1950s, Glasspar was producing 15 to 20 percent of all fiberglass boats sold in the U.S. By 1960, branch factories were operating in Nashville, Tennessee, Petersburg, Virginia, Olympia, Washington, and Sherman, Texas.

Hamilton, Kentucky

Lewis Loder (1819–1904), a magistrate and tavern keeper from Petersburg, Kentucky, in the same county, records going downriver to Hamilton on the steamer to purchase barrels of whiskey.

Henry Pleasants

He is best known for organizing the building of an underground tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, resulting in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, an opportunity for Union troops to break the defense of Petersburg.

John C. Acton

Next he served as Commanding Officer, USCGC Cape Henlopen, a search and rescue patrol boat in Petersburg, Alaska, and then completed his active duty at Vessel Traffic Service, New Orleans.

Joseph Jorgensen

He was appointed postmaster of Petersburg, Virginia, May 21, 1874-June 8, 1877, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress.

Ken Ham

On 28 May 2007 the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky, a project which cost $27 million.

Kentucky Route 20

Near Petersburg, it heads northeast, before turning to the east in Petersburg.

L'Enjoleur

Pensioned, L'Enjoleur died at the age of 28 in 2000 at Highland Meadows Farm near Petersburg, Ohio.

Leonard Black

Black moved to Virginia where in 1873 he was made pastor of the First Baptist Church, also known as Harrison Street Church, in Petersburg.

With encouragement and support, he became a Baptist minister, preaching in Boston, Providence and Nantucket before becoming minister of First Baptist Church in Petersburg.

Patrick Magruder

He was buried on his family’s ancestral estate, Sweden, near Petersburg in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

Petersburg, Alaska

Scott McAdams also lived in Petersburg for a number of years during childhood before moving to Sitka.

Petersburg, Madison County, North Carolina

Petersburg is an unincorporated community on North Carolina Highway 213, in south-central Madison County, North Carolina.

Poplar Level, Louisville

Named for the poplar wood planks that originally made up Poplar Level Road, the main roadway through the neighborhood as it stretched from Germantown to Petersburg, it is bounded by Eastern Parkway to the north, Poplar Level road to the west, Newburg Road to the east, and Interstate 264 to the south.

Secular Student Alliance

On August 7, 2009, the SSA organized a trip to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.

Sharpe James

James (federal inmate number 28791-050) served his 2-year prison sentence in a federal prison camp in Petersburg, Virginia.

Springfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio

The village of New Middletown is located in central Springfield Township, and two unincorporated communities lie in the township: New Springfield in the south, and Petersburg in the southeast.


3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

The regiment and brigade served as the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the VI Corps, and participated in numerous battles from the June 27, 1862, Battle of Gaines Mill, Virginia, to the final Union assaults on Confederate positions at Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865.

Alexius of Rome

Alexander Radishchev, in his Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (1790), refers to the story of St Alexis as sung by a blind soldier begging in Klin, near Moscow.

Anatoly Pavlovich Demidov, 4th Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Evgenia Anatolyevna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 25 September OS: 12 September 1902 - Cazouls-lès-Béziers, 25 April 1955), married in Nice on 29 September 1927 Jean Gerber (Sevastopol, 2 February 1905 - Geneva, 9 September 1981)

Angiolina Bosio

Her funeral drew a large crowd in St. Petersburg and a monument was erected in her memory near the cathedral at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery where she is buried.

Anna Akhmatova

After being displayed in an open coffin, she was interred at Komarovo Cemetery in St Petersburg.

Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams

In 1906, she married Harold Williams (1876–1928), a New Zealand-British Slavist who was working as a journalist in Saint Petersburg for the Morning Post.

Big port Saint Petersburg

-Petersburg includes moorings of sea trading, wood, fish and river ports, the oil terminal, shipbuilding, ship-repair and other factories, sea passenger station, river passenger port, and also moorings of Kronstadt, Lomonosov, Gorskaya, Bronka.

Boris Arapov

When he moved to Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) in 1921, he took piano lessons with Maria Yudina.

Carl Timoleon von Neff

As mentioned, he contributed to the artistic decoration of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, and Helsinki Cathedral, in present-day Finland, as well as churches outside the Russian empire - e.g. in Nice, France and Wiesbaden, present-day Germany.

Chang Ung

In 2009, Mrs. Choi Chun Hi, widow of General Choi Hong Hi spoke at the 19th ITF Congress in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Christian Johansson

Christian Johansson's daughter, the ballerina Anna Christianovna Johansson (1860-1917), was a celebrated soloist of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet and created roles in nearly every important premiere throughout the late 1880s, until burn injuries forced her to retire in 1895.

EarthSync

Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.

Elena Glurjidze

She started training at the School of Choreography in Tbilisi, Georgia, and later trained in St. Petersburg at the Vaganova Ballet Academy.

Georgian monarchs family tree of Iberia

Marie-Félicité Brosset, History of Georgia from Antiquity to the XIX century, Volume 1-7, Saint-Petersburg, 1848–58

Govhar Bakhshaliyeva

Bakhshaliyeva has repeatedly represented the Azerbaijan oriental Studies in foreign countries (Russian Federation (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Makhachkala, Simferopol), Iran, Turkey, The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, etc.

Grant's Headquarters at City Point Museum

The successful capture of Petersburg and its network of railroads was the key to the fall of the Confederate capital city of Richmond, ending the war less than a week later.

Herzen University

The foundling house was based in a unique architectural complex: the palaces of the earl Kirill Razumovsky and Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky on the Moyka in present-day Saint Petersburg.

Igor Kornelyuk

Igor Kornelyuk wrote more than 200 popular songs, many of which were recorded by popular Russian singers like Mikhail Boyarsky, Anne Veski, Edita Piekha and Philipp Kirkorov, and he wrote the soundtracks for some of the most renowned Russian films and TV-series directed by Vladimir Bortko like Gangsters of Saint-Petersburg, The Idiot, The Master and Margarita and Taras Bulba.

Illinois Route 123

New Salem, the home of Abraham Lincoln in the 1830s, has been reconstructed as Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg on IL-123.

Institute of International Programs of PetrSU

By that time such centres had existed in Saint-Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan, Kaliningrad, at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Moscow State International Institute of International Relations and Moscow State University.

Ivan Betskoy

The Saint Petersburg Foundling House was a precursor of the modern Herzen University.

John B. Haberlen

Haberlen has participated as a jury member and auditor in major choral festivals worldwide, including the St. Petersburg Choral Festival, the World Choir in Cardiff, Wales; Marktoberdorf, Germany; Riva del Garda, Italy; Budapest, Hungary; Denmark and Sydney, Australia.

Kanosh, Utah

The town of Kanosh dates back to April 28, 1867 when Brigham Young, with the approval of Chief Kanosh, advised the pioneers to move from Petersburg (Hatton), Utah to the area then known as the campground of the Pahvant band of the Ute Tribe.

Kazan Metro

Trains were produced by Saint Petersburg-based Vagonmash factory in cooperation with Škoda Dopravní Technika of Plzeň, Czech Republic in 2005.

Komarovo

Komarovo, Saint Petersburg, a municipal settlement under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg, Russia

Kristaps Helmanis

When Louis Pasteur created a vaccine against rabies in 1886, Kristaps Helmanis devoted himself to research of rabies in St Petersburg and reported his results to the Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg, who supported his studies.

Lasker versus Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889

The same sacrificial pattern was echoed in a number of later games, notably NimzowitschTarrasch, St Petersburg 1914; MilesBrowne, Lucerne 1982; and PolgarKarpov, Seventh Essent 2003.

Little Tragedies

"Little Tragedies" were founded in 1994 by the graduate of St. Petersburg Conservatory, composer Gennady Ilyin, in the city of Kursk, after previously performing with a band called Paradox.

Luzhsky District

Another one, lying to the west, connects the Baltiysky railway station of Saint Petersburg and Pskov, passing through Luga.

Malov

Oleg Malov, Russian pianist, professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa

Upon her retirement she became an actress with the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, performing in the plays of Pushkin, among others.

Mount Raimer

Originally known as Petersburg Pass Ski Area, the base lodge and parking lots were located adjacent to the height of land on New York State Route 2.

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Elena Pavlovna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 10 June 1884 - Sesto Fiorentino, 4 April 1959), married firstly in Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1903 (divorced in 1907) Count Alexander Pavlovich Shuvalov (Vartemiagui, 7 September 1881 - London, 13 August 1935) and married secondly in Dresden in June 1907 Nikolai Alexeievich Pavlov (Tambov, 9 May 1866 - Vanves, 31 January 1934))

Petrine Baroque

The Petrine Baroque structures outside St Petersburg are scarce; they include the Menshikov Tower in Moscow and the Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn.

Petrodvorets

Peterhof Palace, the palace of Peter the Great located in Peterhof (Saint Petersburg)

Piedmont, Augusta County, Virginia

The Confederate defeat near Piedmont allowed Hunter to easily occupy Staunton the next day, and threatened the Confederacy's security in the Shenandoah Valley as well as on other fronts, since it necessitated the need to detach Early's Second Corps from the main body of the Army of Northern Virginia near Petersburg, Virginia.

Pierina Legnani

She was titled prima ballerina for La Scala in 1892, before moving to St Petersburg in 1892, where she reached fame dancing with the Tsar's Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre until 1901.

Plyussa

Between 1851 and 1862, the railway connecting Saint Petersburg and Warsaw via Pskov was built and crossed Luzhsky Uyezd.

Poisk

POISK Centre, an educational and research organization at Saint Petersburg State University

Russo-Balt

In early 1912 company director M. V. Shidlovsky hired 22-year-old Igor Sikorsky as the chief engineer for RBVZ's new aircraft division in St. Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy

The best performances are moved to leading theatres of Saint Petersburg, such as the Alexandrinsky Theatre, the Lensovet Theatre, etc.

Sasha Krivtsov

Sasha Krivtsov, born (Alexander Krivtsov) June 6, 1967 in St. Petersburg, Russia, is probably best known as the bass player for the House Band on the TV reality shows Rock Star: INXS, Rock Star: Supernova and The Voice.

Sergei Enwerowitsch Tschoban

In 2006, he co-founded the architectural office SPEECH in Moscow, Russia, with projects in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and in other CIS countries.

The Loneliest Planet

The film is adapted from McSweeney's writer Tom Bissell's short story "Expensive Trips Nowhere," published in his collection God Lives in St. Petersburg.

Tony Kettle

On 1 December 2006, Gazprom and the city authorities announced, live on television, that Tony Kettle’s design had been chosen for the, then named, Okhta Centre in St Petersburg.

Unemployed Councils

As one pioneer scholar of the topic has observed, these Unemployed Councils were conceived as an adaptation of the St. Petersburg Councils of the Unemployed, soviets of unemployed workers which emerged during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and which helped to organize opposition to the Tsarist regime of Nikolai II.

Zakhar May

In 2002 Zahar May returned to Russia and created with Saint-Petersburg's musicians group "Shiva" in which he united a lot of famous rock-stars such as Sergey Chigrakov from Chizh & Co, Andrey Vasilyev from Raznyie Lyudi and Igor Dotsenko and Pavel Borisov both from DDT (band).