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unusual facts about Petrograd



Aleksandr Gauk

Gauk’s first conducting experience was in 1912 with a student orchestra, and professionally on 1 October 1917 for a production of Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki at the Petrograd Musical Drama Theatre.

Boris Arapov

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

British Bank of Northern Commerce

Knut Agathon Wallenberg of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank and Emil Glückstadt of Landmansbanken (Copenhagen) founded the British Bank of Northern Commerce in February 1912, together with several other banks including Centralbanken for Norge (Christiania), Banque de Commerce de l`Azoff-Don (Petrograd), and Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas (Paris).

Carl Rustad

He served at an artillery and dragoon regiment in Lyon for ten months in 1906, then as an aspirant in the General Staff from 1906 to 1917 and military attaché in Stockholm and Petrograd from 1912 to 1917.He was promoted to captain in 1915 and major in 1929.

Elizaveta Polonskaya

On her final return to Petrograd in the spring of 1917, she had little time for either politics or literature; to support her family, which was in dire straits after her father's death, she took a job as assistant to a municipal charity doctor on Vasilyevsky Island, and was merely a spectator when the October Revolution occurred.

Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski

After the October revolution and the assassination of the head of Petrograd Cheka, Moisei Uritsky, Nakhchivanski together with some other prominent citizens of Petrograd was taken hostage by the Bolsheviks and executed in the Peter and Paul Fortress in January 1919.

Ildyrymiyya

The first Ildyrymiyye was established in June 1918 in Petrograd and Simal.

Iona Yakir

Yakir took part in actions against the White forces of Nikolai Yudenich in defense of Petrograd, in suppression of Ukrainian anarchist guerrilla forces of Nestor Makhno, and in the Polish-Soviet War.

James Carson Breckinridge

Breckinridge served as naval attaché at many diplomatic posts from April 1916 to September 1918, to include Petrograd, Russia, Christiania, Norway, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Stockholm, Sweden.

Kerensky–Krasnov uprising

Following the October Revolution, Kerensky fled Petrograd and went to Pskov, where he rallied troops loyal to his cause in an attempt to retake the capital.

Kolchak army offensive

The purpose of northern advancing was to connect with North Russia Front and to strike on Petrograd; the purpose of southern advancing was to crush the front of Reds on the middle Volga river and to strike on Moscow.

Marjatta Moulin

Moulin married Paul Moulin (born in July 1917, St. Petersburg/Petrograd as Prince Paul Esperovitch Belosselsky-Belozersky; died November 2005) who was also active in organizational and admistrational functions at the club level and nationally in Finnish fencing.

Military academies in Russia

First established in 1827 as the Advance Officers' Class of the Imperial Russian Navy and later the Nikolayev Naval Academy and reorganized as the Petrograd Maritime Academy in 1917, and at various times renamed as the WPRF Naval Academy, the Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov Naval Academy and the Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrey Grechko Naval Academy, it gained its current name and title in 1990.

Norman Armour

On July 25, the Russian authorities ordered the diplomats out of Petrograd and a new legation was set up in Vologda.

Philosophers' ships

The main load was handled by two German ships, the Oberbürgermeister Haken and the Preussen, which transported more than 160 expelled Russian intellectuals in September and November 1922 from Petrograd to Szczecin in Poland (then in Germany).

Soviet Naval Aviation

They participated in the Russian Civil War, cooperating with the ships and the army during the combats at Petrograd, on the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Volga, the Kama River, Northern Dvina and on the Lake Onega.

Uneven and combined development

A process of industrialization had begun in the main cities since Peter the Great (for example, the Putilov steel works established in Petrograd - where the February 1917 revolution began, with a strike - was the largest in the world at the time).

Vissarion Lominadze

From 1920 to 1921 he was a member of the Bureau of the Oryol regional committee of the party, and from 1921 to 1922 a party organizer in the Vyborg district of Petrograd, where he was involved in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion.

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko

Albert Rhys Williams, American journalist that wrote numerous books about the revolutionary activities in Petrograd of 1917-1918 as being the primary eyewitness of the events.

Wacław Micuta

Wacław Micuta, also known as Wacek (December 6, 1915, Petrograd - September 21, 2008, Geneva) was a Polish economist, functionary of the United Nations and a World War II veteran.

Yeghishe Ishkhanian

After that, he left for Petrograd, where he studied at the Agronomic High School until the February Revolution of 1917.

Yury Annenkov

Later that year, Annenkov staged and designed another mass show, The Storming of the Winter Palace, part of the October Revolution anniversary celebrations in Palace Square, Petrograd.


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