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The 39 pages that link to Saint Petersburg, each with the reason it gives.

• Vladimir PutinRelated: Putin began his post-Soviet political career in the city’s municipal administration.

• Great Northern WarRelated: The city embodied Russia’s new Baltic foothold, secured through the war’s territorial outcome.

• Alfred NobelRelated: Nobel grew up amid his father’s engineering enterprise in this city.

• Siege of LeningradRelated: The city’s renamed identity carries the siege’s memory into the present.

• Marius PetipaRelated: The city’s court and theatres became the center of Petipa’s mature career.

• Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyRelated: The city’s conservatory and theaters were central to his training and early professional world.

• Treaty of NystadRelated: The treaty secured Russia’s control of the region around Peter’s new Baltic capital.

• The FiveRelated: The circle formed within the city’s musical and intellectual life.

• Dmitry MerezhkovskyRelated: The city's literary institutions and debates shaped his early career.

• Mikhail GlinkaRelated: Glinka grew up in the Russian imperial world whose musical institutions centered on the city.

• Edith SödergranRelated: Södergran was born there, in a Finnish family within the Russian Empire.

• Korney ChukovskyRelated: Chukovsky worked there as a journalist and developed his literary reputation.

• Ksenia SobchakRelated: Sobchak was born there in 1981, while her father was a leading local politician.

• Olga BerggoltsRelated: After the city regained its earlier name, Berggolts remained a central figure in its memory of Leningrad.

• Pavel SchillingRelated: The city’s scientific and governmental institutions formed the setting for Schilling’s career.

• Peter Carl FabergéRelated: Fabergé was born and built his career in the imperial capital.

• Alexander GrinRelated: Grin’s work and literary career became closely associated with this city, especially after the revolution.

• Francesco Bartolomeo RastrelliRelated: Its rapid imperial expansion created the setting for Rastrelli's largest commissions.

• Igor SeveryaninRelated: The city’s literary culture formed the setting for Severyanin’s early career.

• Ivan BarkovRelated: Barkov studied and worked in the city that concentrated eighteenth-century Russian court and literary life.

• Tamara de LempickaRelated: Her early exposure to Russian society preceded the upheavals that redirected her life.