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Serafima Panteleeva
Serafima Panteleeva, née Latkina (1846–1918), was a Russian feminist, physiologist, author, and translator. Life Serafima Panteleeva was born in 1846 in St Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire. She married the student activist and publisher Longin Pantelev in 1864. After her husband's arrest in December 1864 for revolutionary activities during the government's crackdown on dissent after the Polish Uprising of 1863–64. She followed Panteleev into Siberian exile after his conviction in May 1866. Depressed after the death in infancy of her second child and her father in 1867, Panteleeva returned home. Needing to support herself and her daughter, she enrolled in the co-educational Vladimir lecture courses in 1870 and then became a medical student at the University of Zurich two years later, specializing in physiology. Some of her work there was later published in the ''Journal of Medical Science'' (german: Zentralblatt für Medizinische Wissenschaften). She joined her husb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
