Saint Petersburg

Country

Russian Empire

Coordinates

59.9500, 30.3167

History

• Санкт Петербург (–1703)
• Saint Petersburg (1703–1721), Tsardom of Russia
• Saint Petersburg (1721–1914), Russian Empire
• Петроград (1914–1917), Russian Empire
• Петроград (1917–1922), Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
• Петроград (1922–1924), Soviet Union
• Ленинград (1924–1991), Soviet Union
• Saint Petersburg (1991–), Russia

Composers

• Hermann Raupach (1728–1778), died in Saint Petersburg
• Vasily Pashkevich (1742–1797), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Ivan Khandoshkin (1747–1804), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Fodor József (1752–1828), died in Saint Petersburg
• Vicente Martín y Soler (1754–1806), died in Saint Petersburg
• Yevstigney Fomin (1761–1800), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Daniel Steibelt (1765–1823), died in Saint Petersburg
• Catterino Cavos (1775–1840), died in Saint Petersburg
• Maria Szymanowska (1789–1831), died in Saint Petersburg
• Marie von Stedingk (1799–1868), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Cesare Pugni (1802–1870), died in Saint Petersburg
• Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857), died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869), died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• César Cui (1835–1918), died in Saint Petersburg
• Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), died in Saint Petersburg
• Eduard Nápravník (1839–1916), died in Saint Petersburg
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), died in Saint Petersburg
• Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (1840–1913), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Louis Brassin (1840–1884), died in Saint Petersburg
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), died in Saint Petersburg
• Ella Adayevskaya (1846–1926), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Ernesto Köhler (1849–1907), died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Taneyev (1850–1918), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Kopylov (1854–1911), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Eduard Schütt (1856–1933), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Arthur Friedheim (1859–1932), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Victor Ewald (1860–1935), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Česlovas Sasnauskas (1867–1916), died in Saint Petersburg
• Samuel Maykapar (1867–1938), died in Saint Petersburg
• Vasily Kalafati (1869–1942), died in Saint Petersburg
• Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878–1936), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946), died in Saint Petersburg
• Boris Asafyev (1884–1949), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Ernest Pingoud (1887–1942), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Vladimir Shcherbachov (1889–1952), died in Saint Petersburg
• Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Viktor Kosenko (1896–1938), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Alexander Tcherepnin (1899–1977), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Nicolai Berezowsky (1900–1953), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Aleksey Zhivotov (1904–1964), died in Saint Petersburg
• Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904–1987), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Boris Arapov (1905–1992), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Andria Balanchivadze (1906–1992), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Vadim Salmanov (1912–1978), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Valery Zhelobinsky (1913–1946), died in Saint Petersburg
• Grigory Frid (1915–2012), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Vladimir Vavilov (1925–1973), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Vitaly Bujanovsky (1928–1993), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Boris Kravchenko (1929–1979), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Sergei Slonimsky (1932–2020), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Zhanneta Metallidi (1934–2019), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Boris Tishchenko (1939–2010), was born and died in Saint Petersburg
• Elena Firsova (1950–), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Sergei Pavlenko (1952–), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Victor Kissine (1953–), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Yuri Khanon (1965–), was born in Saint Petersburg
• Boris Yoffe (1968–), was born in Saint Petersburg