In November 1891, Vladimir Ulyanov passed an external exam for the course of the law faculty of the Imperial St. Petersburg University. After that, he studied a large number of economic literature, especially Zemstvo statistical reports on agriculture.
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Vladimir Putin studied law at Leningrad State University, graduating in 1975.
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Mendeleev became a professor at the Saint Petersburg State University in 1865.
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In 2017 Orhan Pamuk was awarded by honorary degree at Saint Petersburg University.
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In 1736 Mikhail Lomonosov was awarded a scholarship at the St. Petersburg Academy.
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In 1834 Nikolai Gogol was made Professor of Medieval History at the University of St. Petersburg, a job for which he had no qualifications.
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Igor Stravinsky enrolled at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1901, but he attended fewer than fifty class sessions during his four years of study.
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In 1905, demonstrations took place in the St. Petersburg Conservatory as part of the 1905 Revolution; these, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote, were triggered by similar disturbances at St. Petersburg State University, in which students demanded political reforms and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Russia.
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