RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Xenia of Saint Petersburg

1719 - 1803

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Xenia of St. Petersburg (Russian: Святая блаженная Ксения Петербургская, born as Xenia Grigoryevna Petrova (Russian: Ксения Григорьевна Петрова), c. 1719–1730 – c. 1803) is a patron saint of St. Petersburg, who according to tradition, gave all her possessions to the poor after her husband died. Her husband had been Colonel Andrey Fyodorovich Petrov, a chanter at the Saint Andrew Cathedral. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Xenia of Saint Petersburg is the 1,263rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,139th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from Russia (up from 559th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Xenia of Saint Petersburg ranks 1,263 out of 3,187. Before her are Lazarus You Heung-sik, Lutgardis, Roberto Calvi, Alois Hudal, Nicetas of Remesiana, and Pope Peter II of Alexandria. After her are Diego de Landa, Geert Groote, Valentin Haüy, Jean-Claude Hollerich, Franz Jägerstätter, and Pamphilus of Caesarea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1719, Xenia of Saint Petersburg ranks 5. Before her are Leopold Mozart, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, and Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. After her are Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Jacques Cazotte, Gottfried Achenwall, Adel Shah, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, Christian Mayer, and Pierre Poivre. Among people deceased in 1803, Xenia of Saint Petersburg ranks 15. Before her are Cardinal de Rohan, Vittorio Alfieri, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Ami Argand, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After her are Samuel Adams, Pōmare I, Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II, François Devienne, Gottfried van Swieten, and William Hamilton.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Xenia of Saint Petersburg ranks 555 out of 3,761. Before her are Zeki Velidi Togan (1890), Boris Pugo (1937), Wilhelm Voigt (1849), John of Kronstadt (1829), Irena Szewińska (1946), and Natalia Pushkina (1812). After her are Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Markian Popov (1902), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Patriarch Filaret of Moscow (1553), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), and Viktor Chernov (1873).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Xenia of Saint Petersburg ranks 15. Before her are Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Eugen Sandow (1867), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Aleksandr Akimov (1953), Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), and Nicholas of Japan (1836). After her are Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Alexander Schmorell (1917), Tode Mongke (1282), Stephen of Perm (1340), Anna Vyrubova (1884), and Hyacinth (1777).

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