Saint Petersburg Governorate (rus)

Saint Petersburg Governorate

Saint Petersburg Governorate ranks 5,345th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Roehampton, Rotherhithe, and Kashmir. Memorable people born in Saint Petersburg Governorate include Dmitri Ivanovsky, Eduard Wiiralt, and Valeriya Gnarovskaya. Saint Petersburg Governorate has been the birth place of many biologists, and painters. Saint Petersburg Governorate is located in Russia.

The Saint Petersburg Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Saint Petersburg. The governorate was composed of 44,613 square kilometres (17,225 sq mi) of area and 2,112,033 inhabitants. It was bordered by Estonian and Livonian Governorates to the west, Pskov Governorate to the south, Novgorod Governorate to the east, Olonets Governorate to the northeast, and Vyborg Governorate of the Grand Duchy of Finland to the north. The governorate covered most of the areas of modern Leningrad Oblast and Ida-Viru, Jõgeva, Tartu, Põlva, and Võru counties of Estonia. Read more on Wikipedia