Timeline of Saint Petersburg

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17th–18th centuries[]

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860–1721 • 1721–1796 • 1796–1855
1855–1892 • 1892–1917 • 1917–1927
1927–1953 • 1953–1964 • 1964–1982
1982–1991 • 1991–present
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  • 1611 – Nyenschantz built by Swedes.
  • 1703
  • 1709 – Petrischule founded.
  • 1710 – Saint Sampson's Church built.
  • 1711 – Menshikov Palace opens.
  • 1712
    • City becomes capital of Russian Empire.
    • Winter Palace built.
  • 1714
    • Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences founded.
    • Summer Palace of Peter the Great built.
  • 1716 – Catholic Church of St. Catherine founded.
  • 1718 – Saint Petersburg Police established.
  • 1719 – Summer Garden laid out.
  • 1720
    • Hermitage Bridge opens.
    • New Holland Island created.
  • 1721 – Ligovsky Canal constructed.
  • 1724
    • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded.
    • Saint Petersburg Mint founded.
  • 1725
    • Peterhof Palace built (approximate date).
    • Death of Peter the Great.
  • 1727 – Kunstkamera built.
  • 1728 – State capital moves to Moscow from St. Petersburg.
  • 1731 – Cadet Corps founded.
  • 1733 – Peter and Paul Cathedral built.
  • 1736 – Fire.
  • 1738 – Imperial Ballet School established.
  • 1740
    • Peter and Paul Fortress built.
    • Mariinsky Ballet founded (approximate date).
  • 1744
  • 1748 – Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery opens.
  • 1754
    • Stroganov Palace built.
    • Anichkov Palace built.
    • Transfiguration Cathedral built.
  • 1756 – Alexandrinsky Theatre founded.
  • 1757
    • Academy of the Three Noblest Arts founded.
    • Vorontsov Palace built.
  • 1759 – Page Corps founded.
  • 1762 – Winter Palace built.
  • 1764
    • Hermitage Museum established.
    • Institute for Noble Maidens founded.
  • 1770
    • Foundling Hospital established.[2]
    • Moika Palace built.
  • 1771 – Chicherin House built.
  • 1773
    • Mining School established.
    • Volkovo Cemetery established.
  • 1774 – Roller coaster pavilion built at Oranienbaum.
  • 1777 – The Karl Knipper Theatre is founded.
  • 1779 – Free Russian Theatre opens.
  • 1780
  • 1782 – Bronze Horseman monument unveiled.
  • 1783
    • Russian Imperial Opera Orchestra formed.
    • Kamenny Theatre opens.
  • 1785
    • City Duma established.
    • Hermitage Theatre opens.
    • Great Gostiny Dvor built.
    • Marble Palace built.

19th century[]

Map of St. Petersburg, 1880s
  • 1801
    • Friendly Society of Aficionados of Elegance formed.[citation needed]
    • Saint Michael's Castle built.
    • Tsarina's Meadow renamed Field of Mars.
  • 1802 – Saint Petersburg Philharmonia formed.
  • 1804 – Petersburg Pedagogical Institute established.
  • 1805 – Russian Naval Museum established.
  • 1806 – Police Bridge rebuilt.
  • 1807 – Constantine Palace built.
  • 1808 – Smolny Institute building constructed.
  • 1810
    • Military Engineering school established.
    • Stock Exchange built.
  • 1811 – Kazan Cathedral built.
  • 1812 – Syn otechestva begins publication.
  • 1813 – Red Bridge built.
  • 1814
    • Imperial Public Library opens.[3]
    • Narva Triumphal Arch erected.
  • 1818
    • Otechestvennye Zapiski begins publication.
    • Blue Bridge built.
    • Asiatic Museum founded.
  • 1819 – Saint Petersburg University formed.
  • 1822 – Yelagin Palace built.
  • 1823 – Admiralty building rebuilt.
  • 1825
    • December – Interregnum.
    • Decembrist revolt.
    • Northern Bee begins publication.
    • Mikhailovsky Palace built.
  • 1826 – Kamenny Island Theatre building constructed.
  • 1829 – General Staff Building constructed.
  • 1832 – Zoological Museum established.
  • 1833
    • Obvodny Canal opens.
    • Mikhaylovsky Theatre founded.
  • 1834 – Alexander Column unveiled.
  • 1835
    • Imperial School of Jurisprudence founded.
    • Trinity Cathedral built.
  • 1836
    • Sovremennik begins publication.
    • Premiere of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar.[4]
  • 1838 – Moscow Triumphal Gate erected.
  • 1839
    • Observatory opens.
    • Bolshoi Zal built.
  • 1842 – Alexander Park established.
  • 1844 – Mariinsky Palace built.
  • 1848 – Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace expanded.
  • 1850 – Blagoveshchensky Bridge built.
  • 1851
  • 1858 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral built.
  • 1860 – Mariinsky Theatre opens.
  • 1861 – Nicholas Palace and New Michael Palace built.
  • 1862
    • Saint Petersburg Conservatory founded.
    • New Michael Palace built.
    • November: Premiere of Verdi's opera La forza del destino.[5]
  • 1863 – Pavel Military School established.
  • 1866
    • Vestnik Evropy begins publication.
    • Dostoyevsky's fictional Crime and Punishment published.
  • 1867 – Khlebnikov founded.
  • 1869 - Population: 667,926.[6]
  • 1870 – Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway constructed.
  • 1874 – Premiere of Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.[7]
  • 1876 – School of Technical Drawing founded.
  • 1877 – Ciniselli Circus opens.
  • 1878 – Bestuzhev Courses and Stieglitz Museum established.
  • 1879
    • Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography established.
    • Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company headquartered in city.
  • 1882 – Imperial Music Choir formed.[8]
  • 1890 – Saint Petersburg Prison for Solitary Confinement built.
  • 1893 - Premiere of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6.[9]
  • 1894 – Ves Peterburg directory begins publication.
  • 1895 – Russian Museum established.
  • 1897 – Population: 1,267,023.
  • 1900
    • Russian cruiser Aurora launched.
    • Suvorov Museum founded.

20th century[]

1900s–1940s[]

  • 1905
  • 1907 – Electric trams begin operating.
  • 1909 – Na Liteinom Theatre founded.
  • 1910 – March: Soyuz Molodyozhi art exhibit held.[11]
  • 1913 – Population: 2,318,645.[12]
  • 1914 – City renamed "Petrograd."
  • 1916
    • Grigori Rasputin assassinated.
    • Palace Bridge built.
  • 1917
    • February Revolution begins.[13]
    • March – Petrograd Soviet formed.
    • July Days.
    • August – Golos Truda begins publication.
    • October Revolution.
  • 1918
    • State capital moves to Moscow from Petrograd.
    • Osobaya Drammaticheskaya Truppa organized.
    • Ioffe Institute established.
  • 1920 – Theatrical re-enactment of Storming of the Winter Palace.
  • 1921 – Art Culture Museum opens.
  • 1922 – Leningrad Young People's Theatre opens.
  • 1923 – Russian Museum of Ethnography opens.
  • 1924 – City renamed Leningrad.
  • 1928 – Circus museum opens.[citation needed]
  • 1929 – Young Theatre founded.
  • 1931 – Komarov Botanical Institute and Leningrad Radio Orchestra established.
  • 1932
    • Shosseynaya Airport begins operating.
    • Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists and St Petersburg Union of Composers founded.
    • Bolshoy Dom built.
    • Avrora Cinema active.[14]
  • 1934
    • Sergey Kirov assassinated.
    • Leningrad Secondary Art School established.
    • Premiere of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
  • 1936
  • 1938 – Museum of History and Development of Leningrad established.
  • 1941
    • Siege of Leningrad begins.
    • Road of Life begins operating.
  • 1942 – Russian Museum of Military Medicine founded.
  • 1944
    • Siege of Leningrad ends.
    • State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales established.
  • 1946 – Moskovsky Victory Park opens.
  • 1949 – Leningrad Affair.

1950s–1990s[]

See also: History of Saint Petersburg § Timeline of post-war recovery
  • 1953
    • Pavlovsky District becomes part of city.
    • Pushkin Museum established.
  • 1954 – Levashovo, Pargolovo, and Pesochny become part of city.
  • 1955 – Saint Petersburg Metro begins operating.
  • 1962 – Saint Petersburg TV Tower constructed.
  • 1963 – Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 Neva river ditching.
  • 1965 – Population: 3,329,000 city; 3,641,000 urban agglomeration.[15]
  • 1967 – Museum of Electrical Transport established.
  • 1971
    • Dostoevsky Museum opens.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov Museum established.
  • 1974 – Na Fontanke Youth Theatre founded.
  • 1981 – Leningrad Rock Club opens.
  • 1984
    • Teatralnaya laboratoriya founded.
    • Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, United States.[16]
  • 1985 – Population: 4,867,000.[17]
  • 1987
    • Na Neve Theatre opens.
    • Zazerkalie (theatre) opens.
  • 1988 – Xenia of Saint Petersburg canonized.
  • 1989
  • 1990 – Ostrov Theatre opens.
  • 1991
    • City renamed Saint Petersburg.
    • Flag design adopted.
    • Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak becomes mayor.
  • 1993 – opens.[citation needed]
  • 1994
  • 1996 – Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev becomes city governor.
  • 1997 – Toy Museum established.
  • 1998
    • Politician Galina Starovoytova assassinated.
    • Nabokov Museum opens.
  • 2000 – City designated administrative center of Northwestern Federal District.

21st century[]

  • 2003
    • Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Beglov becomes city governor, succeeded by Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko.
    • Peter & Paul Jazz Festival begins.
    • Museum of Optical Technologies opens.
  • 2004
    • Big Obukhovsky Bridge opens.
    • Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art established.
  • 2005 – Gas incident.
  • 2006 – 32nd G8 summit held.
  • 2007 – Dissenters' March.[18]
  • 2008 – Side by Side (film festival) begins.
  • 2009 – Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture and Plastic Arts opens.
  • 2010
    • Yota Space art festival begins.
    • Erarta art museum established.
  • 2011
    • Georgy Sergeyevich Poltavchenko becomes city governor.
    • Saint Petersburg Dam inaugurated.
    • Saint Petersburg Ring Road opens.
    • St. Petersburg International Legal Forum begins.
  • 2013 – September: 2013 G-20 Saint Petersburg summit.

See also[]

  • History of Saint Petersburg
  • Governor of Saint Petersburg
  • Floods in Saint Petersburg
  • List of theatres in Saint Petersburg
  • Timelines of other cities in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia: Kaliningrad, Pskov
Disambiguation pages
  • Convention of St Petersburg (disambiguation)
  • Saint Petersburg Declaration (disambiguation)
  • Treaty of Saint Petersburg (disambiguation)

References[]

  1. ^ Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps. "History of museum". St. Petersburg. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
  2. ^ W. Pembroke Fetridge (1874), "St. Petersburg", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
  3. ^ "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478.
  4. ^ Radio 3. "Opera Timeline". BBC. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  5. ^ Roger Parker, ed. (2001). Oxford Illustrated History of Opera. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-285445-2.
  6. ^ "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590436.
  7. ^ "Timeline of opera", Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved March 30, 2015
  8. ^ Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
  9. ^ Claude Egerton Lowe (1896). "Chronological Summary of the Chief Events in the History of Music". Chronological Cyclopædia of Musicians and Musical Events. London: Weekes & Co.
  10. ^ Chris Cook; John Stevenson (2003). "Russian Revolution (chronology)". Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89224-3.
  11. ^ Chris Michaelides, ed. (2007). "Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 1900─1937". Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900–1937. Online Exhibitions. British Library.
  12. ^ "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
  13. ^ "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved November 30, 2014
  14. ^ "Movie Theaters in St. Petersburg". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
  15. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. Leningrad
  16. ^ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  17. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  18. ^ "Russia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved September 6, 2013.

Bibliography[]

See also: Saint Petersburg § Sources

Published in 18th–19th centuries[]

  • Joseph Marshall (1773), "Petersburg", Travels through Holland, Flanders, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, the Ukraine & Poland in the years 1768, 1769, & 1770 (2nd ed.), London: Printed for J. Almon
  • William Coxe (1784), "Petersburgh", Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark, London: Printed by J. Nichols, for T. Cadell, OCLC 654136
  • Conrad Malte-Brun (1827), "Petersburg", Universal Geography, 6, Edinburgh: Adam Black
  • Josiah Conder (1830), "St. Petersburgh", Russia, The Modern Traveller, 17, London: J.Duncan
  • David Brewster, ed. (1832). "St. Petersburg". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. 15. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t0gt5vw9n.
  • Francis Coghlan (1834). Guide to St. Petersburgh and Moscow. London.
  • John Thomson (1845), "St. Petersburg", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn
  • "St. Petersburg". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. 1868.
  • John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Petersburg", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
  • Maturin Murray Ballou (1887), "(St. Petersburg)", Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia, Boston: Ticknor and Company

Published in 20th century[]

Published in 21st century[]

  • Julie A. Buckler. Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape. 2005
  • George E. Munro. The Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008
  • Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen (2009). "Planning rationalities among practitioners in St. Petersburg, Russia: Soviet traditions and Western influences". In Jörg Knieling and Frank Othengrafen (ed.). Planning Cultures in Europe: Decoding Cultural Phenomena in Urban and Regional Planning. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7565-5.
  • Paul Keenan. St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703–1761. 2013
  • Charles Emerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares it to 20 major world cities on the eve of World War I; pp 110–132.
  • Catriona Kelly. St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past. 2014
  • Steven Maddox. Saving Stalin's Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad. 2014

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