This Florida city was named by a railroad official for his boyhood home in Russia
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Re: Lolita Note: The Poes of Peterburg (fwd) - LISTSERV 16.0 ...  <snip> > John Some correction/clarification of the above: although VN's city ... named after the Russian one ("by a railroad official for his boyhood home," Funk...
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Orange Belt Railway - Wikipedia  The Orange Belt Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad established in 1885 by Russian exile Peter Demens in Florida. ... Disston City never met Disston's expectations and became the small city of Gulfport, Florida, while ... near what Demens named St. Petersburg, Florida (after his childhood home in Russia).
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Florida Frontiers The Peter Demens Story | Florida Historical Society  May 27, 2014 ... Demens was raised by his maternal uncle, a nobleman named ... a contract to build the station houses for the South Florida Railroad. ... end the line after one of his childhood homes in Russia, St. Petersburg. ... Remembered as a founding father of the city, Demens also built the first hotel there, the Detroit.
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St.Petersburg: through centuries - On the map of the world:Where ...  Home. About project. Contents. New Materials. St.Petersburg. Countries ... Is the origin of their names connected with the city on the Neva River? ... He was a Russian by birth, a nobleman, an officer of the Imperial Guards Troops, a landlord, an entrepreneur ... His first experience in railroad construction was encouraging.
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How Eight Miami-Dade Cities Got Their Names  The New Tropic  May 15, 2015 ... Instead, the new city was named after the Miami River, which comes ... Coral Gables' father George Merrick named the city after his beloved childhood home of the same name, ... Doral officially became a city in 2003, and in the last decade has ... Here's another Florida East Coast Railway success story.
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The Green Bench History Lesson - Green Bench Monthly  Sep 10, 2016 ... The famous green benches at St. Petersburg, Florida. circa 194- Photo ... After the completion of his rail line, Plant did everything he could to ... He named it Disston City. ... Disston tried unsuccessfully to have Peter Demens, who was ... named the area St. Petersburg in honor of his hometown in Russia.
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Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia  Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with five million inhabitants in ... Peter moved the capital from Moscow to Saint Petersburg in 1712, 9 years ... the Russian government, for another 186 years until the communist revolution of .... On June 12, 1991, simultaneously with the first Russian presidential...
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St. Petersburg, Florida - Wikipedia  St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2015 census ... St. Petersburg is the second-largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, after Tampa. .... Jutting a half mile into the bay was the St. Petersburg Pier, a major tourist ... In the eastern center of the city is Downtown St. Petersburg, which includes...
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The F.M.Dostoevsky Museum - Moscow  The future writer lived in this residence until May 1837, when his father sent him to ... true friendship; family reading sessions; their walks around the city together, ... of childhood, of home If a man carries many such memories with him into life, ... Museum, located in the northern wing of the former Marinsky Hospital for the...
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Helsinki Central Railway Station  It will likely be an architectural marvel and busy rail station a century from now. ... His father was a minister assigned to a church located near St. Petersburg. ... At an early age, he gained considerable fame. ... Saarinen was selected to design the building. .... One of the more successful students was his son Eero Saarinen.
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Peter Demens, founder of St. Petersburg, Florida  Peter Demens was an entrepreneur from Russia who founded Saint Petersburg ... The founder of the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, Peter Demens was born Pyotr ... In 1880, Dementyev was exiled from Russia, possibly for his political beliefs, ... on the railway reached Tampa Bay, where a train station and a hotel were built.
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The Founding of St. Petersburg, Russia | Building the World  Peter moved the capital to declare a new vision for the country. ... In 1712, Peter the Great declared the new city of St. Petersburg as the Capital of Russia, ... No longer the capital of Russia (Lenin won that argument), the city remains famous ... at the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theater (later called the Maryinsky and still later the...
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Requiem For A Czar - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Czar Nicholas II came home to his beloved St. Petersburg Friday, 80 years to the day after he ... July 17, 1998 ... During the Communist era, the city became Leningrad. ... name and it was there that Nicholas and family were at last laid to rest. ... Instead Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their five children and four members of the...
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The Founding of St. Petersburg, Russia | Building the World  But the U.S. capital differs from St. Petersburg in a number of ways: while the Russian ... Peter moved the capital to declare a new vision for the country. ... In 1712, Peter the Great declared the new city of St. Petersburg as the Capital of Russia, ... No wonder that Czar Peter found a match for his restless energy in the dance.
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Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia  Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with five million inhabitants in 2012, and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It is politically incorporated as a federal subject (a federal city). Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar ... On May 12 [O.S. 1] 1703, during the Great Northern War, Peter the Great...
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The Celestial Railroad - Town of Jupiter  named the Lake Worth, to continue to Palm Beach or other points south. The rob ... Jupiter and Lake Worth Railroad, were announced on. June 8, 1887. ... The Celestial Railroad stations of Venus ... met by Captain Armour and after the picnic, visited the lighthouse ... start began building the Royal Poinciana Hotel. The little.
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Moscow Kremlin - Wikipedia  The Moscow Kremlin usually referred to as the Kremlin, is a fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River to the south, Saint Basil's Cathedral and Red ... UNESCO World Heritage Site ... The complex serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation. The name Kremlin...
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Historic Brevard Landmark Guide - 2012 - Brevard County  have been named to the National Register of Historic. Places. The NRHP ..... land grant to build the Florida East Coast Railroad south to Miami. Supported by...
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Saint Petersburg - Welcome2018.com  From its foundation and up until 1914 it has been called St. Petersburg; between 1914 and 1924 its name was Petrograd, then, until 1991 it was called...
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Speaking Of: : Keeping Track of Soviet Names - latimes  Nov 19, 1991 ... THE CITIES Scores of Soviet cities have stripped the Communist ... Gorky -- Nizhny Novgorod The namesake of Maxim Gorky, ... Ordzhonikidze -- Vladikavkaz The city's original name, a statement of Russian imperial pride meaning Ruler ... name after decades of being named after Mikhail Frunze, a famous...
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