Foreign Saint Petersburg (One day)
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Jewish Saint Petersburg
The first Jews arrived in St. Petersburg at the time of Peter the Great, however, the official date of the foundation of the Jewish community can be considered the year 1802, when a plot of land was acquired for the Jewish cemetery in the Lutheran part of the cemetery Volkov. During our tour we will visit historical places related to the life of the community at different times, we will know where Jewish families settled during the epoque of Russian Empire and how their lives changed with the beginning of the Soviet period. Then we will visit the Great Coral Synagogue. This magnificent Mudejar style building has been the center of Jewish life in the city throughout its existence.
Duration — 3 h.
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German St.Petersburg
Germans were the first wide-scale immigrants to arrive in St. Petersburg, many of them working as engineers, builders and craftsmen to help Peter the Great create his new city. In effect, the original bourgeoisie of St. Petersburg were predominantly German. Not far behind them came numerous German scientists in all disciplines from economics to botany, invited to the new Russian capital to help establish the Academy of Sciences. While events of the 20th century have dispersed the city's German communities, there was a time in the 19th century when nearly ten per cent of St. Petersburg's population was ethnic German. Catherine the Great, herself German by birth, employed German scientists, particularly in the natural sciences, and men such as Johann Buxbaum, Johann Georgi and Peter Simon Pallas did much of the groundwork to map Russia's rich and varied natural world.Starting with the German Settlement on Vasilevsky Island in one of the very oldest neighborhoods of the city, German migrants established colonies at several locations in and around St. Petersburg, such as Friedental near Tsarskoye Selo and Neu Saratowka (Novosaratovka) at the south-eastern city limits. In the very centre of the city, meanwhile, the German church and its school (the Petrikirche and Petrischule) were centres of German culture, and the latter educated some of the most prominent people in pre-Revolutionary Russia (as did the Karl May's gymnasium on Vasilevsky Island).
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