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At present, there are no more than 3,000 Germans, including expats, living in St. Petersburg, whose population now is five million. Petrikirche and its environs. Millionnaya street. Legion...
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Use our walking tours to navigate through St. Petersburg's historic centre, finding architecture, sights and monuments connected to German life in the city and the many great figures of history of German origin that have left their mark on St. Petersburg.
The city of Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703. It became the capital of the Russian Empire and remained as such for more than two hundred years (1712–1728, 1732–1918). Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the October Coup. [1]
Vasilyevsky Island was the area where the first Germans who came to St. Petersburg on the invitation of Peter the Great settled. Here they worked for generations as architects and engineers, scientists and teachers, doctors and craftsmen, and here they were buried.
The Grand Palace at Peterhof was designed to be the centerpiece of Peter the Great's "Russian Versaille". Around 1720, the Tsar gave up on attempts to establish his court at Strelna, mainly because the boggy ground proved entirely unsuitable for the canals and fountains that he envisioned.
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Saint Petersburg, [c] formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, [d] is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, [4] with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area.
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Saint Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad... under any of its names, it's an elegant city with an eventful past. Built by Peter the Great in the early 18th century as a display of the power of Imperial Russia to the world, it's an important artistic and cultural center thanks to the wealth of monuments and museums that tell its story. The City of ...
