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Events from the year 1915 in Russia. World War I: Russia entered World War I in 1914, and 1915 saw continued military involvement, including the 1915 campaign in Galicia and the Brusilov Offensive. (Sources: Borzenko, M. (2015). Russian military strategy in the First World War. Routledge. & Figes, O. (1996).
Russian Revolution of 1905: A strike began at the Putilov Works in St. Petersburg. 9 January Bloody Sunday (1905) : Peaceful demonstrators arrived at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to present a petition to the emperor, leading was a priest named Georgi Gapon.
1728 – State capital moves to Moscow from St. Petersburg. 1731 – Cadet Corps founded. 1732 – State capital moves back to St. Petersburg from Moscow, after only 4 years, and will remain there for nearly two centuries. 1733 – Peter and Paul Cathedral built. 1736 – Fire. 1738 – Imperial Ballet School established. 1740 Peter and Paul ...
Workers' dormitory in St Petersburg, 1913. Workers' strikes, which had been significant from 1912 to July 1914, had become rare in the first months of the war: they resumed with vigor in August–September 1915. [97] From 10,000 between August and December 1914, the number of strikers rose to 540,000 in 1915 and 880,000 in 1916. [98]
In 1821, the university was renamed Saint Petersburg Imperial University. [14] In 1823, most of the university moved from the Twelve Collegia to the southern part of the city. In 1824, a modified version of the charter of Moscow University was adopted as the first charter of the Saint Petersburg Imperial University. In 1829, there were 19 full ...
Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation ("ГУАП") (1941) Saint Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation (founded 1955) St. Petersburg Christian University (1990) European University at Saint Petersburg (1994) Pushkin Leningrad State University (1992) Smolny College (1999) Saint Petersburg Academic University (2002 ...
The Faculty of Law became the biggest at Saint Petersburg University by the end of 19th century (1335 of 2675 students studied there in 1894). The university's and faculty's advancement was stopped by the Revolution of 1905, World War I and the Revolution of 1917. After the Revolution many professors left the country, some of them were expelled ...
After the death of Peter the Great, Menshikov was arrested and exiled to Siberia. In 1728 Peter II of Russia moved the capital back to Moscow, but four years later, in 1732, St. Petersburg again became the capital of Russia and remained the seat of the government for about two centuries.