Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor John Williams White left for Europe last week to spend his Sabbatical year. He will stay two months in St. Petersburg and from there go to Greece, stopping on his way at several large continental cities to make a study of valuable manuscripts in their libraries...
...quarter of a century Prince Kropotkin has been a political refugee from Russia. An account of his dramatic escape from prison in St. Petersburg is given in Stepniak's "Underground Russia." Prince Kropotkin has lived quietly in England for many years and as a man of science, particularly as a geographer and geologist, he takes high rank...
...advancing Russian literature. The first real litterateur was Prince Cantamile. He wrote the first Russian verses-mainly satires directed against those who opposed the reforms of Peter the Great. The next great writer was Lomonossov. Abandoning the life of a fisherman he fled to Moscow, and later to St. Petersburg, where he obtained his education. He marks the real beginning of Russian poetry. He was in literary life what Peter the Great was in practical life. He expelled the hybrid German words and establised rules of versification. The two other important writers of the period were Soumarakov and Trediakovsky...
...Chessin, a graduate of the University of St. Petersburg, now teaching at Johns Hopkins University, delivered a lecture in Sever 11 yesterday afternoon on the Origin, Growth and Abolition of Personal Servitude in Russia...
...Chessin, a graduate of the University of St. Petersburg, now teaching in the Mathematical Department at Johns Hopkins University, has accepted an invitation to deliver a lecture on the Origin, Growth and Abolition of Personal Servitude in Russia. The lecture will be given in Sever 11 on Friday, March 1, at 4.45 p.m., and will be open to the public...