• Oranienbaum may refer to: Germany Oranienbaum, Germany, a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Oranienbaum-Wörlitz Russia Oranienbaum, Russia (Russian: Ораниенба́ум)...
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    Oranienbaum (Russian: Ораниенба́ум) is a Russian royal residence, located on the Gulf of Finland west of St. Petersburg. The Palace ensemble and the city...
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    Lomonosov (Russian: Ломоно́сов; before 1948: Oranienbaum, Ораниенба́ум) is a municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg...
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    Oranienbaum (German pronunciation: [oˈʁaːni̯ənˌbaʊ̯m] ) is a former town and a former municipality in the district of Wittenberg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany...
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    The Oranienbaum Bridgehead (Ораниенбаумский плацдарм in Russian) was an isolated portion of the Leningrad Oblast in Russia, which was retained under Soviet...
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    consummated the marriage. During the sixteen years of their residence in Oranienbaum, Catherine took numerous lovers, while her husband did the same in the...
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    aimed at forcing the German 18th Army back from its positions near Oranienbaum. On the third day of the offensive, the Soviets broke through German...
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  • entertainment pavilions built in 1754–1757 in Tsarskoye Selo and in 1762–1774 in Oranienbaum royal residences of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. They had...
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    Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. Anna Alexandrovna Taneeva was born in Oranienbaum as the daughter of Aleksandr Taneyev, Chief Steward to His Majesty's...
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    border with Denmark) in 1739. The newlyweds settled in the palace of Oranienbaum, which remained the residence of the "young court" for many years. From...
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    Oranienbaum-Wörlitz is a town in the district of Wittenberg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2011 by the merger of the former towns...
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    uncertain. In 1758, he was accepted as a singer into the capella at Oranienbaum, before being employed at the imperial court of Catherine II in Saint...
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    withdraw in late August as part of 8th Army, and helped to establish the Oranienbaum Bridgehead. In October it was ferried into Leningrad itself, but was...
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    Baroque garden in the former settlement of Nischwitz, which was renamed Oranienbaum in 1673.[citation needed] The Dutch influence remained prevalent in the...
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    Rhine-Westphalia) Oppenau (Baden-Württemberg) Oppenheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) Oranienbaum-Wörlitz (Saxony-Anhalt) Oranienburg (Brandenburg) Orlamünde (Thuringia)...
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    Petersburg (now assigned to the Hermitage Museum), Menshikov intended to make Oranienbaum a capital of his ephemeral Principality. Pushkin in one of his poems...
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    used in the land defence of Leningrad. The ship herself was docked in Oranienbaum port, and was repeatedly shelled and bombed. On 30 September 1941, she...
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    The offensive would be three-pronged, driving from the foothold at Oranienbaum that had been captured earlier that year, the Pulkovo Heights and from...
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    of Finland to reinforce the Front's Coastal Operational Group in the Oranienbaum Bridgehead, where it would remain until January 1944, when it took part...
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    Imperial palace at Tsarskoye Selo. Terminals were also installed in Oranienbaum and Kronstadt. In 1853 the Russian government awarded a contract to Siemens...
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    Albert von Lespilliez (1765 – 1770) Golden Cabinet of the Chinese Palace, Oranienbaum, Russia, built by Antonio Rinaldi for Catherine the Great (1762 – 1778)...
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    was built in Munich's Englischer Garten, while the Chinese Garden of Oranienbaum includes another pagoda and also a Chinese teahouse. Though the rise...
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    autobiography and a series of lectures. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia—a town now called Lomonosov, about thirty miles (fifty kilometers)...
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    sent a 250-man detachment to Oranienbaum but was driven back by machine gun fire. Three delegates that the Oranienbaum air squadron had sent to Kronstadt...
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    Steiner's SS Corps, to Oranienbaum, Russia in Army Group North's sector. The corps was deployed to the area near Oranienbaum as part of the 18th Army...
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  • Annaburg Bad Schmiedeberg Coswig Gräfenhainichen Jessen (Elster) Kemberg Oranienbaum-Wörlitz Wittenberg Zahna-Elster After the resolution of 6 October 2005...
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    Decembrist Prince Sergei Volkonsky. The city of Lomonosov, Russia (formerly Oranienbaum), and a lunar crater bear his name, as does a crater on Mars and the...
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  • Ломоно́сов) may also refer to: Lomonosov (surname) Lomonosov, Russia (formerly Oranienbaum), a town in Russia Lomonosov Moscow State University, university in Moscow...
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    Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Kronstadt before moving from Kronstadt to Oranienbaum in 1895, where the center of the Ioannites' functioning moved after it...
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    to have constructed a sledding hill in the gardens of her palace at Oranienbaum in St. Petersburg. The Riding Mountain (a.k.a. La Grande Glisade) entertainment...
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