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3 days ago · Peter III made himself personally unpopular with St. Petersburg society; in addition, he allowed his entourage (mainly his Holstein relatives and German officers) to take control of the government.
2 days ago · St. Peter's is a church built in the Renaissance style located in the Vatican City west of the River Tiber and near the Janiculum Hill and Hadrian's Mausoleum. Its central dome dominates the skyline of Rome. The basilica is approached via St. Peter's Square, a forecourt in two sections, both surrounded by tall colonnades. The first space is ...
3 days ago · Beginning in the 1760s, the demand for western European artistic and cultural works grew increasingly in the salons of St. Petersburg. By the 1780s the major classics of European literature had become easily available in translation to any educated person.
1 day ago · The failure to solve these problems produced a climate of instability and led to a succession of crises in St. Petersburg and Moscow that make it difficult to give unity to the period from 1725 until the accession of Catherine II (the Great) in 1762.
3 days ago · A bevy of current and former elected officials joined Red Apple Group leadership Monday to celebrate the topping out of what developer John Catsimatidis called downtown St. Petersburg’s Empire State Building. The Residences at 400 Central will become St. Petersburg’s tallest tower at 515 feet when construction concludes in mid-2025.
5 days ago · Our History. Humanities education at the Polytechnic Institute began as early as 1902, when the Economics faculty of the Institute included legal sciences, general history, foreign languages, theology, political economy, philosophy, and sociology in its curriculum. Later a compulsory study of modern history of Russia and the West was introduced.
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1 day ago · Hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, is offering free admission. It's limited to Pinellas County residents with ID. Go here and look under "Calendar of events" and go to "Arts Alive Day" to register. The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art is asking people to reserve tickets here.
