Wilhelm Kress ( July 29, 1836 in Saint Petersburg-February 24, 1913 in Vienna ) was an aviation pioneer and an early aircraft designer.

* Viktor Kress, governor of Tomsk Oblast, Russia

Viktor Melkiorovich Kress () ( born 16 November 1948 in Vlasovo-Dvorino, Kostroma Oblast ) is the governor of Tomsk Oblast, Russia.

* 3 October – Wilhelm Kress trials his Drachenflieger twin-hulled tandem triplane seaplane, the first powered marine aircraft, in Austria-Hungary.

Kress ' aircraft, the Drachenflieger, was constructed for water takeoff and made a first successful attempt ( it was not a controlled flight like the one of the Wright brothers in 1903, but more or less larger ' hops ') in 1901 at the Wienerwaldsee near Vienna.

* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.

* Hodge, Robert & Kress, Gunther.

* March 19 – A riot breaks out in Harlem, NYC, after a rumor that police killed a shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store circulates.

Around 11: 00 p. m., Ritter von Danner, along with fellow officers General Adolf Ritter von Ruith and General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, compelled von Lossow to repudiate the putsch.

* Feinberg, Kenneth, Jack Kress, Gary McDowell, and Warren E. Burger ( 1986 ).

This reduction in species is also confirmed by work done by Kress and Prince at the Smithsonian Institution, however, this only covers a subset of the species range.

* Edward J. Kress, At-large, Republican

* Samuel Henry Kress, founder of S. H. Kress & Co. and noted art collector.

* Academy Award for Film Editing – ( Carl Kress & Harold F. Kress )

With escapism becoming popular in the culture during the depth of the Depression, the S. H. Kress & Co. building, built to " provide luxury to the common man ," opened in downtown Meridian, as did the Temple Theater, which was used as a movie house.

Angola has an embassy in Moscow and an honorary consulate in Saint Petersburg.

Following various business failures, Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

* 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).

when I become sovereign I shall live in Moscow and leave Saint Petersburg

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

* 1912 – Pravda, the " voice " of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.

No. 976 ; Günzburg Libr., Saint Petersburg ; Parma ; Ramsgate Montefiore College Library ( formerly Halberstam, No. 192 ); and Turin.

Electrothermal AAS ( ET AAS ) using graphite tube atomizers was pioneered by Boris V. L ’ vov at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, Russia, since the late 1950s, and further investigated by Hans Massmann at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy ( ISAS ) in Dortmund, Germany.

Statue of Andrei Sakharov at Saint Petersburg State University.

During his time in the former Soviet Union he founded the Jewish University, both in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

* Bloody Sunday ( 1905 ), a massacre in Saint Petersburg, Russia that led to the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions

Other cities with extensive canal networks include: Alkmaar, Amersfoort, Bolsward, Brielle, Delft, Den Bosch, Dokkum, Dordrecht, Enkhuizen, Franeker, Gouda, Haarlem, Harlingen, Leeuwarden, Leiden, Sneek and Utrecht in the Netherlands ; Brugge and Gent in Flanders, Belgium ; Birmingham in England ; Saint Petersburg in Russia ; Hamburg and Berlin in Germany ; Fort Lauderdale and Cape Coral in Florida, United States.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

From 1773 for two years Diderot spent some months at the empress's court in Saint Petersburg.

Diderot's travel from Paris to Saint Petersburg in 1773-1774.

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Category: Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni

In 1916-1917 Vertov was studying medicine at the Psychoneurological Institute in Saint Petersburg and experimenting with " sound collages " in his free time.

Students in laboratory, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University.

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* 1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* 1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.

By that time the military and strategic situation of Russia had become more difficult due of the rise of Germany and Japan, and Russian central administration and the idea of Pan-Slavism had grown in Saint Petersburg.

The Russification of Finland and the crisis of governmental leadership in the country, following the 1899 imperial order, was the result of a collision between the ideologies of peripheral authority ( the Grand Duchy as a state of the Russian empire but a separate part of the Russian governmental system ) and central power ( an undivided Russia dominated by Saint Petersburg ).

It extends between Finland ( to the north ) and Estonia ( to the south ) all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it.

The eastern parts of the Gulf of Finland belong to Russia, and some of Russia's most important oil harbors are located farthest in, near Saint Petersburg ( including Primorsk ).

As the seaway to Saint Petersburg, the Gulf of Finland has been and continues to be of considerable strategic importance to Russia.

Cantor was born in 1845 in the western merchant colony in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and brought up in the city until he was eleven.

* Meteor service between Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Peterhof Palace, a summer palace of Russian tsars.

* Meteor service between Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Kronstadt, a strongly fortified Russian seaport town, located on Kotlin Island, near the head of the Gulf of Finland.

Hotel Astoria ( Saint Petersburg ) | Hotel Astoria and a statue of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in front, in Saint Petersburg, Russia