military academy in the Russian Empire, from 1759 to 1917 The Page Corps (Russian: Пажеский корпус, romanized: Pazhyeskiy korpus; French: Corps des Pages) was a military academy in Imperial Russia, which prepared sons of the nobility and of senior officers for military service. Similarly, the Imperial School of Jurisprudence prepared boys for civil service. The present-day equivalent of the P...
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Each birth place is unique but there are some places that stand out among others. One of such places is Institute Otta in Saint Petersburg (the former Imperial Institute of birth and gynaecology). The original Institute was founded in 1797 by the wife of Pavel I, Maria Fedorovna, and was occupying the building N 148 on Fontanka canal. In 1904 the Institute had been moved to its current premises...