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It is located in a historic building, Smolny and known as the Government of Saint Petersburg (Правительство Санкт-Петербурга). The head of the administration is the Governor of Saint Petersburg (Mayor of Saint Petersburg before 1996). In 1991 – 2006 the head of the city was elected by direct vote of the city residents.
In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with the birth of the Russian Empire and Russia's entry into modern history as a European great power. [9] It served as a capital of the Tsardom of Russia , and the subsequent Russian Empire, from 1712 to 1918 (being replaced by Moscow for a short period of time between 1728 ...
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments is the name used by UNESCO when it collectively designated the historic core of the Russian city of St. Petersburg, as well as buildings and ensembles located in the immediate vicinity as a World Heritage Site in 1991.
Russia is home to museums that include the Tretyakov Gallery, the Kremlin Armoury and the State Historical Museum in Moscow, the Hermitage Museum, and the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, the Kazan Kremlin in Kazan, etc. [citation needed] Russia has museums related to its literary and classical music heritage, such as Yasnaya Polyana associated ...
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Saint Sampson the Hospitable's Cathedral - a 1730s monument to Russia's victory in the decisive Battle of Poltava in the Great Northern War over the Swedish Empire;the church grounds became the city's first interdenominational cemetery where many of St Petersburg's famous international architects were laid to rest, as well as the executed ...
The Doric colonnade The interior. The Russian Museum of Ethnography (Российский этнографический музей) is a museum in St. Petersburg that houses a collection of about 500,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
The palace as seen from across the Fontanka River from a small Prachechniy ("Laundry") Bridge in August 2007. The Summer Palace of Peter the Great (Russian: Летний дворец Петра I) was built in Saint Petersburg between 1710 and 1714 in the northeast corner of the Summer Garden, located on an island formed by the Fontanka River, Moyka River, and the Swan Canal. [1]