In later years Moscow became their secondary base, after Peter the Great founded his new capital St Petersburg.
In 1917, when Natalie was 16, the Russian revolution was ignited in nearby St Petersburg.
According to Pushkin himself, life began when he joined the Lyceum school in St Petersburg.
Fellow English team Liverpool almost staged a memorable comeback to beat Zenit St Petersburg .
He will also hold a meeting with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, in St Petersburg.
One bank, Menatep, closed, only to reopen as a new, debt-free, legal entity based in St Petersburg.
The artefacts are now spread across the world, in major museums in Beijing, London, Paris and St Petersburg.
It will hold an auction later this year for a stake of around 25% in a power plant near St Petersburg.
Maccarinelli had claimed the vacant European crown last April by stopping Alexander Kotlobay in the first round of their fight in St Petersburg.
He has backed at least a dozen winning candidates in recent regional elections, including Vladimir Yakovlev, mayor of Russia's second city, St Petersburg.
He visited West Germany often enough to land on a visa blacklist, which proved inconvenient when he later became a deputy mayor of St Petersburg.
With increasing confidence, a date of March 1st 1998 is being pencilled into official diaries for the solemn burial of the last tsar in St Petersburg.
The world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev, himself an Ossetian, gave a concert in the devastated South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali with his home orchestra, the Mariinsky of St Petersburg.
"In the near future there will a deal to further increase the customer base on the British market, " said Mr Medvedev at a business conference in St Petersburg.
But less demand for the Italian masters may be good news for them, and for today's violin craftsmen, working as far afield as Ann Arbor, Bremen and St Petersburg.
UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, will soon be on the road too, trying to bring the Security Council back together one reason he refused an invitation to the gang-of-three session in St Petersburg.
Rijkaard also used Verheijen when he coached Barcelona, as did Hiddink when he managed Chelsea, while Advocaat used the 39-year-old fitness expert when he was in charge of Zenit St Petersburg.
Here are just a few examples of the many successes of the World Heritage Convention: interventions have prevented unsightly constructions in historic cities such as London, Vienna, Macao and St Petersburg.
Witness, on January 10th, the assassination of Ilya Weissman, the Russian finance director of one of the few really successful foreign investments in Russia, the Nordic-owned Baltika brewery in St Petersburg.
Two big mistakes were to choose a name that meant little to Russian drinkers, and to skimp on the advertising needed to establish the new label in the crucial markets of Moscow and St Petersburg.
Even as people gasp for air in Moscow, Russia's authorities have begun to cut down the forests that surround the city, ostensibly to make space for a badly needed road from Moscow to St Petersburg.
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There were also questions about expense claims from officials who had organised a meeting with Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive on the day of the Uefa Cup final in 2008 between Rangers and Zenit St Petersburg.
Thanks to his mother who bribed a teacher at a state school, Marc escaped the narrow confines of the world of East European Jewry, learnt to speak Russian instead of Yiddish and eventually made contact with the bourgeois, cosmopolitan society in St Petersburg.
Final identification of the rest of their family took years, and they were ceremonially buried at the St Peter and Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg in 1998.
Most of them, including Mr Navalny, were released unharmed (the police were more brutal in St Petersburg).
"Ruthless", "devastating" and the "saviour of boxing" were some of the milder plaudits lauded on the St Petersburg man.
The economic crisis in Russia has implications reaching far beyond Moscow, St Petersburg and Novgorod.
The race will be run over 37, 000 miles and ends in St Petersburg next June.
Starwood is opening a hotel in Sochi in February 2014 and has an Aloft hotel debuting in St Petersburg by 2015.
The three are holding an impromptu summit in St Petersburg this weekend.
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