PETRODVORETS

pyĕˌtrədvəryĕtsˈ, formerly Peterhofpĕtyĭrgôfˈ, city, NW European Russia, on Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Administratively part of St. Petersburg, Petrodvorets is a port, a rail terminus, and a resort center. The city grew up around the palaces and gardens built for Peter I, who founded it in 1711. Peterhof, which became the most lavish of the czar's summer residences, contained several palaces surrounded by vast parks that rivaled Versailles and were famous for their fountains and cascades. Under the Soviet government, the palaces were converted to museums. Largely destroyed during World War II, Peterhof has since been restored.

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books on: Petrodvorets  - 15 results

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Dialogues and a Diary
Book by Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft; Doubleday, 1963
Subjects: Composers--Interviews, Stravinsky, Igor--1882-1971
...rehearsal we drive to Peterhof, now Petrodvorets, and Oranienbaum, now Lomonosov...half cropped from artillery fire. Petrodvorets itself has been badly shot up, though...the farthest German advance; unlike Petrodvorets, Oranienbaum was never captured by...
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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...Povorotnyy. Vladivostok is its chief port. Petergof, see PETRODVORETS. Petipa, Marius 1822-1910 , French choreographer and...Legal and Ethical Experiences , Boston and Toronto, 1959. Petrodvorets until 1944 Petergof , town in the Leningrad Oblast subordinated...
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From Stanislavsky to Gorbachev: The Theater-Studios of Leningrad
Book by Douglas Graham Stenberg; Peter Lang, 1995
Subjects: Studio Theater--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg--History--20th Century--Interviews
...Borodinskii Street, 12 - School #308 7. The Little Mouse Art. Dir. D. Timofeev Founder - YC of the Petrodvorets District The City of Petrodvorets, Kalinin Street, 7 8. The Showman Art. Dir. I. G. Ramonokova Founder - YC of the October District
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Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics
Book by Theodore H. Friedgut, Jeffrey W. Hahn; M. E. Sharpe, 1994
Subjects: Local Government--Russia (Federation), Local Government--Russia (Federation)--Case Studies, Russia (Federation)--Politics And Government--1991-
...Yaroslavl, and those in smaller towns, such as Pushkin and Petrodvorets under the jurisdiction of St. Petersburg stress that city...extra-budgetary funds and carryover funds. For example, Petrodvorets used a portion of its surplus to create a local police force...
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Culture and Customs of Russia
Book by Sydney Schultze; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Russia (Federation)--Civilization, Russia (Federation)--Social Life And Customs
...Pershina, Natalya, 133 Perun, 23 , 24 Peter I, the Great, 10 - 11 , 25 , 74 , 145 , 146 , 149 Peter III, 12 Peterhof Petrodvorets , 145 , 148 Peter-Paul Fortress, 145 Petipa, Marius, 116 Petrenko, Sergey, 56 Petrov, Evgeny, 86 Petrushevskaya...
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"For the Sake of Slavdom": St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society-A Collective Portrait of 1913
Journal article by Zdenko Zlatar; East European Quarterly, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Saint Petersburg, Russia--Description and travel
...particularly the military, and the professions, above all the Slavists. At the time of this profile the commander of Peterhof Petrodvorets, General of Infantry 2nd rank, Petr Dmitrievich Parensov, was the societys President; two Vice-Presidents were: Platon...


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magazine articles on: Petrodvorets  - 3 results

 
 
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Travelling Historically in '97: A Selection of the History and Heritage Leisure Opportunities Available for Travellers in the Year Ahead
Magazine article by Ian Fitzgerald; History Today, Vol. 47, March 1997
Subjects: Historians--Travel, Package tours--Directories
...875 pounds sterling. Other dates available) includes the great palaces and monuments already mentioned and a visit to Petrodvorets, the Baroque palace just outside the city. The Middle East The Holy Land has been a compulsive draw for pilgrims, religious...
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Diary of Diplomacy
Magazine article by Thomas R. Hendrickson; Mortgage Banking, Vol. 53, March 1993
Subjects: Diplomacy, Housing, Hungary, International finance, Manycountries, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, Mortgage banks, Mortgages, Poland, Privatization, Russia
...we traversed the palaces, museums, churches and historic monuments with passion. Highlights of our days were visits to Petrodvorets, the czars summer palace on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a boat ride on the canals that earned the city the nickname...
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Life in a Punctuation
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 101, October 1992
Subjects: Behavior, Economics, Nature, Russia, Social conditions & trends
...example, but nothing by Leonardo or Rembrandt. Hawkers push pamphlets of the outlying palaces--Pushkin, Pavlovsk, and Petrodvorets--hoping that visitors, unable to read the Cyrillic titles, will mistake them for the Hermitage.) Since tourists carry...


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Baltic Cities & St. Petersburg; Departs from Hull - 3 June 2011
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 15, 2011
...Marinsky Theatre - home to the world-renowned Kirov Ballet - and join the optional excursion to the fabled Summer Palace at Petrodvorets. Day nine - Tallinn. Almost impossibly beautiful, the Estonian capital, with its enchanting and virtually perfectly preserved...
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Nanny Agony and Baby Ecstasy for the Blairs
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), March 12, 2000
...journalist who is expecting her own baby four days earlier. Mrs Blairs comments came as she was given a guided tour of the Petrodvorets palace, just outside St Petersburg, while her husband was locked in talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin...
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Top Ten Terrific Trains
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 4, 2006
...Trans-Siberian Express on the Belarusian border. Next stop is the beautiful city of St Petersburg to see the Palace of Petrodvorets and to take a stroll along Nevsky Prospekt, before boarding the Trans-Siberian Express again on its journey east. The...
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Clear Window on Russia of Present Day
Newspaper article by Moira Cooke; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), January 9, 2000
Subjects: Russia
...painter and youll find him represented there. A hydrofoil from the nearby riverbank runs 20km out into the Gulf of Finland to Petrodvorets, the summer resident of the Tsars. Peter the Great was fanatical about water and built access for his guests via a canal...
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Top Ten Terrific Trains
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 4, 2006
...Trans-Siberian Express on the Belarusian border. Next stop is the beautiful city of St Petersburg to see the Palace of Petrodvorets and to take a stroll along Nevsky Prospekt, before boarding the Trans-Siberian Express again on its journey east. The...


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encyclopedia articles on: Petrodvorets  - 3 results

 
 
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Petrodvorets
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PETRODVORETS pye tr dv ryets , formerly Peterhof petyirgof , city, NW European Russia...of the Gulf of Finland. Administratively part of St. Petersburg, Petrodvorets is a port, a rail terminus, and a resort center. The city grew up...
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Peterhof
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PETERHOF see Petrodvorets , Russia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Saint Petersburg , City, Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sciences library. Outside the city are Pushkin , with the Summer Palace, and the former imperial residence of Peterhof (now Petrodvorets ) and Gatchina . A striking phenomenon of St. Petersburg is the prolonged twilight, or the "white nights," of June and...


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