Events in the city of St. Petersburg in January 2005
Winter in St. Petersburg is very beautiful and entirely manageable if one dresses in layers and wears gloves and a hat.
It is a very good time to visit the various palaces and museums....
January in Russian History
Vladimir Lenin's death on January 21, 1924
Lenin's chief physician, Dr. Aleksei Ivanovich Abrikosov performed an autopsy revealing the cause of death to be a brain
hemorrhage resulting from severe arterial sclerosis.
Tragic duel of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in 1837
The time when Alexander Pushkin was creating his poetry is considered to be the Golden Age of Russian Poetry. The author of "Eugene Onegin,"
"The Bronze Horseman," and many other wonderful pieces lived to be only 38 years old.