St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg, the imperial capital of Russia, was the seat of government and, despite restrictions on Jewish residence, home to a Jewish community of merchants, professionals, and communal leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was to St. Petersburg that Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad chasidut, was brought when imprisoned in 1798 on false charges; his release on the 19th of Kislev is commemorated by Chabad chasidim.

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