The first wooden church at this place appeared in 1753. The church was consecrated in honor of the birth of Jesus Christ (Rozhdestvenskaya). On 30 July of 1914 my bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna Kramskaya and me had Wedding Ceremony in this chirch.

The first wooden church at this place  appeared in 1753. The church was consecrated in honor of the birth of Jesus Christ (Rozhdestvenskaya).

Ten streets in this district  and all area were named Rozhdestvensky  in honor of this  church.

Instead of the disassembled wooden church in 1787 was completed the remarkable stone temple. This temple has become one of the most beautiful in St. Petersburg.

This temple was destroyed in 1934 during the Stalinist period.

The   Rozhdestvenskaya  Chirch  in 1905.


The place whereThe  Rozhdestvenskaya  Chirch  have to be. (2012). 

My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna Kramskaya graduated from Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt 59.

       My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna  Kramskaya  graduated from  Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt 59.

      The Bestuzhev Courses  were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia. 

The institute opened its doors in 1878. It was named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first Director. The most famouse  professors  of the Bestuzhev Courses were   Alexander Borodin, Faddei Zielinski, Dmitry Mendeleyev, Ivan Sechenov, and Sergey Platonov. A building for Bestuzhev Courses on the 10th line of Vasilevsky Island  was built in 1885 on a draft of Academician of  Architecture A. Krasovsky. 

Bestuzhev courses in St. Petersburg. 1878-1918