Timeline of Saint Petersburg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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17th–18th centuries

• 1611 – Nyenschantz built by Swedes.
• 1703
  • City founded by Tsar Peter the Great
  • Cabin of Peter the Great built.
  • Artillery museum formed.^[1]
• 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.
• 1732 – State capital moves back to St. Petersburg from Moscow, after only 4 years, and will remain there for nearly two centuries.
• 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
  • Lomonosov Porcelain Factory founded.
  • Twelve Collegia built.
• 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.
  • The Neva caused flooding.^[3]
• 1779 – Free Russian Theatre opens.
• 1780
  • Saint Andrew's Cathedral consecrated.
  • Chesme Church built.
• 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.^[4]
  • 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.
• 1824 - The Neva caused flooding.^[3]
• 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.^[5]
• 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
  • Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway begins operating.
  • Nicholaevsky rail terminal opens.
• 1858 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral built.
• 1860 – Mariinsky Theatre opens.
• 1861 – Nicholas Palace built.
• 1862
  • Saint Petersburg Conservatory founded.
  • New Michael Palace built.
  • November: Premiere of Verdi's opera La forza del destino.^[6]
• 1863 – Pavel Military School established.
• 1866
  • Vestnik Evropy begins publication.
  • Dostoyevsky's fictional Crime and Punishment published.
• 1867 – Khlebnikov founded.
• 1869 - Population: 667,926.^[7][3]
• 1870 – Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway constructed.
• 1874 – Premiere of Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.^[8]
• 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.
• 1881 - Population: 861,303.^[3]
• 1882 – Imperial Music Choir formed.^[9]
• 1888 - Ship canal completed. ^[3]
• 1890
  • Saint Petersburg Prison for Solitary Confinement built.
  • Population: 954,400.^[3]
• 1893 - Premiere of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6.^[10]
• 1894 – Ves Peterburg directory begins publication.
• 1895 – Conversion of Mikhailovsky Palace into Russian Museum.^[3]
• 1897 - Population: 1,267,023.
• 1900
  • Russian cruiser Aurora launched.
  • Suvorov Museum founded.

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1905
  • January – Bloody Sunday.^[11]
  • October – Saint Petersburg Soviet formed.
  • Population: 1,429,000.^[3]
• 1907 – Electric trams begin operating.
• 1909 – Na Liteinom Theatre founded.
• 1910 – March: Soyuz Molodyozhi art exhibit held.^[12]
• 1913 – Population: 2,318,645.^[13]
• 1914 – City renamed "Petrograd."
• 1916
  • Grigori Rasputin assassinated.
  • Palace Bridge built.
• 1917
  • February Revolution begins.^[14]
  • 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.^[15]
• 1934
  • Sergey Kirov assassinated.
  • Leningrad Secondary Art School established.
  • Premiere of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
• 1936
  • Arctic and Antarctic Museum opens.
  • Memorial Lenin Komsomol Theatre established.
• 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.^[16]
• 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.^[17]
• 1985 – Population: 4,867,000.^[18]
• 1987
  • Na Neve Theatre opens.
  • Zazerkalie (theatre) opens.
• 1988 – Xenia of Saint Petersburg canonized.
• 1989
  • Komedianty Theatre founded.
  • Akhmatova Museum opens.
• 1990 – Ostrov Theatre opens.
• 1991
  • City renamed Saint Petersburg.
  • Flag design adopted.
  • Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak becomes mayor.
• 1993 – Tunnel nightclub opens.^{[citation needed]}
• 1994
  • Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg formed.
  • St Petersburg Ballet Theatre founded.
• 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

• 2000
  • The 2000 IIHF Men's World Championships are held in Saint Petersburg.^[19]
• 2003
  • Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Beglov becomes city governor, succeeded by Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko.
  • Peter & Paul Jazz Festival begins.
  • Museum of Optical Technologies opens.
  • Saint Petersburg Children´s Hospice opens.
• 2004
  • Big Obukhovsky Bridge opens.
  • Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art established.
• 2005 – Gas incident.
• 2006 – 32nd G8 summit held.
• 2007 – Dissenters' March.^[20]
• 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.
• 2017
  • A bombing attack hits Saint Petersburg's metro.^[21]

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. . 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. Britannica 1910.
4. "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478.
5. Radio 3. "Opera Timeline". BBC. Retrieved March 30, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. Roger Parker, ed. (2001). Oxford Illustrated History of Opera. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-285445-2.
7. "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590436.
8. "Timeline of opera", Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved March 30, 2015
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Chris Cook; John Stevenson (2003). "Russian Revolution (chronology)". Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89224-3.
12. 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.
13. "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
14. "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved November 30, 2014
15. "Movie Theaters in St. Petersburg". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
16. "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
17. "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
18. 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
19. "2000 IIHF Men's World Championship". teamusa.usahockey.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
20. "Russia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 26 April 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
21. Times, The Moscow (2017-12-15). "Islamic State Suicide Bombing Foiled in St. Petersburg, FSB Says". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2023-05-14.

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, vol. 6, Edinburgh: Adam Black
• Josiah Conder (1830), "St. Petersburgh", Russia, The Modern Traveller, vol. 17, London: J.Duncan
• David Brewster, ed. (1832). "St. Petersburg". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Vol. 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

• Annette M.B. Meakin (1906). "St. Petersburg". Russia, Travels and Studies. London: Hurst and Blackett. OCLC 3664651.
• Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch; Bealby, John Thomas (1910). "St Petersburg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). pp. 38–40.
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "St. Petersburg", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• Ruth Kedzie Wood (1912), "The Capital", The Tourist's Russia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, OCLC 526774
• Nevin O. Winter (1913). "The Capital". Russian Empire of To-day and Yesterday. Boston: L. C. Page.
• "St. Petersburg", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
• Francis Whiting Halsey, ed. (1914). "St. Petersburg". Russia, Scandinavia, and the Southeast. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors. Vol. 10. Funk & Wagnalls Company – via Hathi Trust.
• Harold Whitmore Williams (1915), "In the Chief City", Russia of the Russians, New York: C. Scribner's Sons
• James William Barnes Steveni (1916), Petrograd, Past and Present, Philadelphia: Lippincott, OCLC 2399981, OL 14034111M
• Ian M. Matley (1981). (PDF). Geographical Review. 71 (4): 411–426. doi:10.2307/214506. JSTOR 214506. S2CID 155945755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-13.
• "Russia: St. Petersburg", Europe, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, p. 757+, OL 15158051W
• "St Petersburg", Scandinavian & Baltic Europe (4th ed.), Lonely Planet, 1999, p. 438+, OL 8314793M
• Olga Gritsai and Herman van der Wusten (2000). "Moscow and St. Petersburg, a sequence of capitals, a tale of two cities". GeoJournal. 51 (1/2): 33–45. doi:10.1023/A:1010849220006. JSTOR 41147495. S2CID 154264277.
• Duncan Fallowell, One Hot Summer in St Petersburg (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994)

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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