Word: petersburg
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...mercantile business. He served on the Boston Common Council and on the Board of Aldermen and was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1894-96. In 1900, Mr. Meyer was appointed ambassador to Italy, where he remained until 1905, in which year he was transferred to St. Petersburg as ambassador to Russia. He was recalled in 1907 in order to become a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, as postmaster general...
...affairs for three years to take up the position of secretary to the president of the Council of Ministers. This was a valuable chance to become acquainted with French political circles during a difficult and crucial period. In 1902 he accompanied M. Lonbet, President of the Republic to St. Petersburg...
...Grew '02, third secretary of embassy at St. Petersburg...
Professor C. H. Toy will deliver a lecture in room 2 of the Semitic Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock on "A Cufic Koran Manuscript in the Semitic Museum." The original, of which this is a copy, is in the Royal Library of St. Petersburg and is believed to be the oldest Koran manuscript in existence...
...Francis, D.D., of England, who has been the pastor of the Anglo-American Church in St., Petersburg for the past 14 years, and who has been intimately connected with Russian court circles, gave an interesting lecture in the New Lecture Hall last night on "The Political Conditions in Russia...