Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (31 January 1881 (Old Style)/12 February 1881 (New Style) – 23 January 1931) was a famous ballet dancer of the early 20th century. Pavlova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia two months premature. She later claimed her father had died when she was two years old. She was rejected at the age of eight from the Imperial Ballet School because she was too small for her age and was asked to return when she reached her tenth year.

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (Cyrillic: ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player. She is currently the fourth ranked women's player in the world.

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia - January 6, 1918, Halle, Germany) was a German mathematician. He is best known as the creator of set theory. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are "more numerous" than the natural numbers.

Tom Conway (September 15, 1904 - April 22, 1967) was an English actor. He was born to English parents as Thomas Charles Sanders in St. Petersburg, Russia; his brother was the actor George Sanders. The family eventually moved back to England, where both brothers were educated at Brighton College. According to the IMDB, Tom lost a coin toss with George to decide which of the two of them would change his last name to avoid any confusion with each other.

Peter Tchernyshev (born February 6, 1971 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is an American figure skater who competed in ice dance with Naomi Lang. They joined forces on the ice in 1996 and have captured five gold medals at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Tchernyshev became a U.S. citizen in 2001, and the pair competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, "Behring") (August 1681-December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-"komandor" known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. He was born in the town of Horsens in Denmark and died at Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula. After a voyage to the East Indies, he joined the Russian Navy in 1703, …

Tamara Geva (1907 - 1997) was a Russian-born actress, ballet dancer and performer. She was born Tamara Gevergeva on 17 March 1907 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was the daughter of Levko Gevergeyev, a wealthy manufacturer of church vestments and a patron of avante-garde artists. As a child Tamara lived in a huge 18th century house which had a miniature theater and a theater museum.

Igor Butman is a jazz saxophonist born is St. Petersburg, Russia in 1961. He is considered to be a virtuoso saxophonist, and a skilled bandleader. American saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. was instrumental in introducing Igor Butman to American audiences by featuring the Russian saxophonist on his 1988 album, "Then and Now". American trumpet player Wynton Marsalis has also been a strong champion of Igor Butman.

Evgenia Shishkova (born December 18, 1972) is a professional pairs figure skater and coach. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and competed on the Russian team from 1987 to 1999, partnering with Vadim Naumov. Together they won the World Professional Championship in April, 1998. She currently coaches in Simsbury, Connecticut, USA.

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia ("Olga Alexandrovna Romanova") (June 13, 1882-November 24, 1960) was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia under the reign of her elder brother, Czar Nicholas II. Her father was the 19th century reformer of Russia, Alexander III; her mother was the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna, formerly titled Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Raised at the Gatchina Palace of St. Petersburg, Russia, …

Joseph Ruttenberg (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a photojournalist and Academy Award-winning cinematographer. Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, Joseph Ruttenberg was ten years old when his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston, Massachusetts. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe newspaper as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer.

Baron Boris Alexandrovich Fitinhof-Schell (AKA Boris Schell) (born 1829 in St. Petersburg, Russia - died 1901 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian composer. He was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Field and Henselt, and was a classmate of Tchaikovsky's. His most noted work are the ballets "The Haarlem Tulip" (1887) and "Cinderella" (1893), composed for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. He also scored four operas for the St.

Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Gilman graduated from Yale College in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White, who would later serve as first president of Cornell University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, and would remain close friends. After serving as attaché of the United States legation at St. Petersburg, Russia from 1853 to 1855, …

Valentin Tomberg (February 27, 1900 - February 24, 1973) was a Russian Christian mystic and hermetic magician. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. As an adolescent, he was drawn to the hermetic Martinism of G.O.Mebes, Theosophy and the mystical practices of Eastern Orthodoxy. Tomberg's mother was shot by looters during the Russian Revolution, and Tomberg and his father fled to Tallinn in Estonia.

Wiliam Dawson (1885-1972) was a career United States diplomat. He was U.S. ambassador to multiple countries, including being the first ambassador to the Organization of American States. He was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, on 11 August 1885, the son of William Dawson and Maria Rice. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1906, he attended the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris and soon after entered the United States Foreign Service.

George Ignatieff, CC, MA, DCL (December 16 1913 - August 10 1989) was a Canadian diplomat and was the recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in international service. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the youngest of five sons, to a distinguished Russian family. His mother was Princess Natasha Mestchersky and his father was Count Paul Ignatieff, a close advisor to Tsar Nicholas II serving as his last Minister of Education.

Katarina Gerboldt (born March 28, 1989 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian figure skater.

Dora Gordine, was a noted Russian-British sculptress, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (she was never prepared to reveal her year of birth). She came to Paris to study music and art. Then, surrounded by galleries and salons, she "instinctively felt a correlation between the rhythms of music and sculpture" and developed her sculptural vision. In 1925 Gordine worked as a painter on a mural for the British Pavilion at the Decorative Arts Exhibition.

Award-winning poet Polina Barskova was born on February 4, 1976, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The daughter of poet Yevgeny Rein, Barskova wrote her first poems at age 8 and published her first book of poems, Christmas, in 1991 at 15. Several poetry collections have followed. She writes in Russian, but 3 poems translated into English were published in Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry (Talisman, 2000).

Tatiana Semenova (July 17, 1920 - September 24, 1996) was the founding director of the Houston Ballet Academy. Semenova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but moved with her family to Paris, France when she was five. At the age of seven, Semenova began studying with Mathilde Kschessinska. After several years of practice, Semenova made her dancing debut at the age of 11 with a Russian opera company formed in London.

Robert Winthrop Chanler was born in New York City to John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward, in a sea of wealthy and interconnected Hudson River families that included the Astors, Delanos, Winthrops and Stuyvesants. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts, and there his most famous work titled "Giraffes," was completed in 1905 and later purchased by the French Government.

Jack Gosnell was the US Consul General to St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduate from Duke University in 1966.

Georgi Kandelaki (April 10, 1974 in Gori, Georgia) is a former boxer from Georgia, who won the gold medal in the super heavyweight division (+ 91 kg) at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. A year earlier he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Kandelaki became a pro in 1998, and captured the vacant WBU Heavyweight Title on December 21, 2002 by defeating Russia's Alex Vassilev in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Henry Shelton Sanford was an American diplomat and businessman who founded the city of Sanford, Florida. Sanford was born in Woodbury, Connecticut into an old New England family. He was the son of Nehemiah Curtis Sanford, who made his fortune in selling brass tacks and was a senator of the Connecticut Senate. Henry Shelton Sanford enrolled in Trinity College in 1839, but did not graduate. He obtained the title of ‘General,’ which he is often noted by, …

Maurice Zbriger (born July 10 1896, Kamenets-Podolskiy, Ukraine; died April 5 1981, Montreal, Canada) was a Canadian violinist, composer and conductor. He began learning violin as a child, and continued his studies at the conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was a classmate of Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman. He left Russia in 1920 and traveled throughout Europe, until he arrived in Montreal in 1924.

Adam Darr (Schweinfurt, Germany, 1811 - Augsburg, Germany, 1866) was a German classical guitarist, singer, zitherer and composer. Adam Darr began at the age of eighteen his musical activities in performance and travelled throughout Europe performing before royal courts. At the end of his tour in Russia, he remained in St. Petersburg, Russia to teach and perform and after three years returned to a position in Wurzburg.

Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (born 4 May, 1850, in St. Petersburg, Russia - died 12 December, 1904) was a Russian chess player. His parents had emigrated from Germany. He held the title of Russian champion for 10 years before finally being defeated by his student, Mikhail Chigorin, in 1880. In 1878 he played two matches against Mikhail Chigorin, losing the first 7-3, …

Julia Powers (nee Gorchakova) is a ballroom dance champion and fitness program creator

Francis Vinton Greene was a United States Army officer who fought in the Spanish-American War. He came from the Greene family of Rhode Island, noted for its long line of participants in American military history. Greene was born in Providence, Rhode Island on June 27, 1850. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1870. He first served in the U.S. artillery but then transferred to the Corps of Engineers.

Alexei Manziola (born March 29, 1980, in St. Petersburg, Russia) is an Israeli swimmer. One of Israel's top swimmers since the mid-1990s, Manziola finished 6th in the 100m Butterfly (57.14) at the 1996 European Youth Championships. He was a member of the 4x100m Freestyle Relay that placed 8th at the European LC Championships 2000 in Helsinki, Finland. At the 2000 Israel Short Course Championships, he won the title in the 50m Freestyle (22.85), 50m Butterfly (24.70), …

Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, also Ustwolskaja or Oustvolskaia, born June 17, 1919, Petrograd, died December 22, 2006 St Petersburg) was a Russian composer of classical music.

Emma Caraher-Gilbert's full name is Marie-Therese Emma Caraher-Gilbert and is Mrs. New Zealand-World 2006, Mrs. New Zealand-Commonwealth 2006 and Mrs. New Zealand-Globe 2007. Marie-Therese represented New Zealand at Mrs. World 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia and at Mrs. Commonwealth International 2006 in London, England where she came 1st runner-up. Marie-Therese is a model as well a mother of eight children.

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