Peter I or Peter the Great was the Russian czar who did a lot to reorganize the country. He modernized the army and founded Russia’s fleet. He spent much of his time fighting wars, first against the Turks then against the Swedes in the Great Northern War. He succeeded in conquering land on the Baltic Sea, where he founded St. Petersburg. A gateway to Europe, St. Petersburg became the new capital of Russia.

Mikhail Lomonosov, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there in 1765. He was a scientist and a writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Lomonosov was also a poet, who created the basis of the modern Russian literary language He wrote a histiory of Russia and a Russian grammar. He founded a Moscow State University.

He is called the father of Russian literature. He is the most famous Russian poet, an author of more than 700 poems and a large number of stories, dramas and short stories, the person who interpreted folk tales, which are read by every child in Russia. It was a tragedy for Russia when he died at the age of 37 in the prime of his glory. Pushkin was mortally wounded at a duel, and died two days later in this flat in St. Petersburg. In this flat there is a museum now.

He was one of the greatest and most talented novelists not only in Russia, but in the whole world. He is known for his novels Crime and punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodskiy was a Soviet-Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Anna Akhmatova was the leader, heart and soul of the Saint Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry for half a century. She spent most of her life and died in Leningrad in 1966.

Vladimir Putin was the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia. Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in our city.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the 3rd and current President of Russia.

Governor of Saint-Petersburg. She is decorated with federal awards, including the Order of the Working Red Banner (1982).

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctively Russian kind of classical music

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Science. Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Science.. Director of the Ioffe Physics and Technics Institute.

Andrey Arshavin is a famous Russian footballer