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But four years later, in 1732, under Empress Anna of Russia, Saint Petersburg was again designated as the capital of the Russian Empire. It remained the seat of the Romanov dynasty and the Imperial Court of the Russian tsars, as well as the seat of the Russian government, for another 186 years until the communist revolution of 1917.
Bodies of water of Saint Petersburg (4 C, 3 P) H. Hills of Saint Petersburg (2 P) I. Islands of Saint Petersburg (11 P) Pages in category "Landforms of Saint Petersburg"
St. Petersburg's position on a latitude of about 60° N, less than seven degrees to the south of the Arctic Circle, leads to a huge variation in day length across seasons, ranging from 5 h 53 min to 18 h 50 min, and causes twilight to last all night in early summer, from June to mid-July – the celebrated phenomenon known as the white nights.
Russia's vast stretch of land along the Arctic Ocean and the Russian Arctic islands have a polar climate. [ 31 ] The coastal part of Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea, most notably Sochi , and some coastal and interior strips of the North Caucasus possess a humid subtropical climate with mild and wet winters.
The Nobles' Land Bank was founded in 1885 to maintain the land tenure of hereditary nobles. It was located in St. Petersburg, Admiralty Embankment, house 14. [2] The bank applied to the European part of the Russian Empire, excluding the Grand Principality Finland, the Kingdom of Polish, the Baltic province and the Transcaucasus. The loans were ...
Founding of Saint Petersburg (1703) – Tsar Peter the Great founded the city on 27 May 1703 after he reconquered the Ingrian land from Sweden, in the Great Northern War. Upon the city's founding, he named the city after his patron saint, the apostle Saint Peter. Peter moved the capital from Moscow to Saint Petersburg in 1712.
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In 1707, four years after Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg, he gave the grounds near the seaside to his right-hand man, Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov.. Menshikov commissioned the architects Giovanni Maria Fontana and Gottfried Schädel, who built his residence, the Grand Menshikov Palace from 1710 to 1727 (not to be confused with Menshikov Palace in Saint Petersburg, built by the same ...