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Where there is salt, there is Peretz.

Nevsky Ave., 15, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

Peretz is a wealthy Jew who owns large businesses in various leases and contracts, especially in the transportation and supply of salt to government stores.

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A Jew of Peter the Great or the First Bathhouse Scandal of Russia

Nevsky Ave., 39A, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191023

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The first "bathhouse scandal" in Russian history occurred in 1727, and its protagonist was Anton Devier, the General Police Master of Saint Petersburg, the first and highest-ranking official in law enforcement. The fact that he was also Jewish makes the situation even more intriguing.

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Synagogue in the Mikhailovsky Castle

10 Inzhenernaya St., Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191023

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In the complex of buildings of the Engineering Castle, but not in the castle itself, there was a Jewish soldiers' synagogue from 1838 to 1856.

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Burned alive

Nevsky Ave., 15, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

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About the Famous Case of Voznitsyn and Leibov in the 18th Century

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Bironovshchina or Lipmanovshchina

Moika River Embankment, 12, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

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The Jews of Anna Ioannovna

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The Empress's Doctor, the First Russian Jewish Academician

Dvortsovaya Square, 2, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000

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About paired Russian banyas, since they contribute to the strengthening, preservation, and restoration of health

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The Best Diplomat of Peter the Great

Bolshaya Morskaya St., 20, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

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For where do I need you! The career of Petr Pavlovich Shafirov seems utterly incredible. A baptized Jew finds his way to the court of Peter I, becomes a diplomat, heads the postal service, mining and metallurgy, oversees foreign trade, saves the tsar and tsarina from Turkish captivity, becomes one of the richest and most powerful people in the empire, and then, one fine day, loses everything.

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Samoyed King

Dvortsovaya Embankment, 2E, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 191186

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Imperial Parks of Petersburg: The Summer Garden

He helped Peter I shave the beards of the boyars, became a king, and was exiled.

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The Soft-bodied Robespierre of Revolutionary Petrograd

Gorokhovaya St., 2, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000

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Moisey Uritsky - Bloody Executioner or Humanist Chekist

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Jewish cemetery

Stachek Square, 4, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 198095

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Great Writers: Joseph Brodsky (Petersburg and the Whole World)

Jewish cemetery near Leningrad. A crooked fence made of rotten plywood. Behind the crooked fence lie side by side lawyers, merchants, musicians, revolutionaries.

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The Holocaust in Leningrad

Moskovskaya St., 5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196601

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World War II

The Jews were gathered in the city center, near the "Avangard" cinema, lined up in a column, and led towards the Alexandrovsky Palace. A resident of Pushkin, Ivanova, recalled seeing the column of Jews, which included elderly people, women, and children, totaling about 800 people. Witnesses reported that when the Jews were being led to the execution, they sang a mournful song.

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Great Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg

Lermontovsky Ave., 2, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190121

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World: Synagogues - Spiritual Centers of the Jewish World

On September 1, 1869, Emperor Alexander II approved the resolution of the Committee of Ministers allowing the Jews of St. Petersburg to build a synagogue to replace the existing prayer houses.

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Moisey Nappelbaum – artist or photographer?

Nevsky Ave., 72, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191025

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Nappelbaum considered Rembrandt his spiritual inspiration, who, according to him, more than any other artist, brilliantly worked with light and shadow. “Our life is continuously enriched, renewed, and moves forward. And photographic art must develop, spiritually mature, otherwise it will wither, take on a frozen form, and lose everything that was so arduously gained. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to learn not only the technique of photography, the laws of visual art, composition, and lighting – one must study life, people, human faces, characters in their movement. It is necessary to learn to creatively comprehend the subject.” M. S. Nappelbaum from the book *From Craft to Art*.

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Diamond of the Revolution

X828+2M Petrogradsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Russia: Political Terrorism and Assassinations

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Dora Vul'fovna Brilliant — revolutionary, member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SRs) and their combat organization, participant in the assassination attempts on Minister of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav Pleve and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

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Three Jewish diplomats at the emperor's throne

Bolshaya Morskaya St., 20, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186

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Three representatives of this remarkable family became the pride of Russian diplomacy and in the 1710s entered the most influential clan overseeing the empire's foreign policy. Their fate could fill more than one thick novel: secret wars, conspiracies, escapes abroad, and the "return of the resident," closeness to the court, and a long period of disgrace.

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The Legacy of the Ginzburg Barons

Konnogvardeyskiy Lane, 14, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 190000

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Something unprecedented happened. The Hasidim, in protest against the ban on using texts sacred to the Jews, barricaded themselves in the office of one of the GBL leaders…

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Alexander Lishnevsky — the "universal soldier" of architecture

Zagorodny Prospekt, 11, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191002

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Alexander Lvovich Lishnevsky (1868–1942) was a Russian architect, a representative of Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism. He was the author of numerous buildings in Saint Petersburg.

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How an Explosion at a Gunpowder Factory Led to the Discovery of a Jewish Cemetery

14 Aleksandrovskoy Fermy Avenue, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 192174

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On February 16, 1875, approximately 12 kilometers south of the OPZ, on the opposite bank of the Neva River, a large crowd gathered for the solemn opening of the Jewish Cemetery. It was established as a separate section of the Preobrazhensky Cemetery (now the cemetery in memory of the victims of January 9) and later became independent. Regular burials at the newly opened cemetery began only two weeks later. The reason was that, according to ancient Jewish tradition, a person is not buried alone if no one has yet been buried in that place. Judaism forbids condemning the soul of the deceased to loneliness in the afterlife. To properly "launch" the cemetery, it was necessary to bury two people at once, but such a case did not occur. However, as you have already understood, it did not take long to wait.

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Forgotten Grandfathers of Lenin: Dmitry and Alexander Blank

Brinko Lane, 4, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190068

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In the official biography of Lenin, published in 1940, it was said about the leader's parents: "Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov came from very poor townspeople of the city of Astrakhan... Vladimir Ilyich's mother, née Blank, was the daughter of the doctor A.D. Blank." There was no further mention of grandmothers or grandfathers.

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