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A Jew of Peter the Great or the First Bathhouse Scandal of Russia
Synagogue in the Mikhailovsky Castle
Burned alive
Bironovshchina or Lipmanovshchina
The Empress's Doctor, the First Russian Jewish Academician
The Best Diplomat of Peter the Great
Samoyed King
Dvortsovaya Embankment, 2E, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 191186
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The Soft-bodied Robespierre of Revolutionary Petrograd
Jewish cemetery
The Holocaust in Leningrad
Photo: Lilotel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moskovskaya St., 5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 196601
Petersburg: Jews
Great Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg
Moisey Nappelbaum – artist or photographer?
Diamond of the Revolution
Three Jewish diplomats at the emperor's throne
The Legacy of the Ginzburg Barons
Konnogvardeyskiy Lane, 14, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 190000
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Alexander Lishnevsky — the "universal soldier" of architecture
How an Explosion at a Gunpowder Factory Led to the Discovery of a Jewish Cemetery