Куоккала (Ре́пино) / Kuokkala (Repino): 1910-1914

Дореволюционная Россия в фотографиях Окрестности Санкт-Петербурга Куоккала (Ре́пино) 1910-1914 Pre-Revolutionary Russia in Photographs Neighbourhoods of St. Petersburg Kuokkala (Repino) 1910-1914 Grave-Allegro from prelude. Op. 32. No13 by S. Rachmaninov. Played here by Moura Lympany Here I present a further video in my series of the neighbourhoods of St. Petersburg before the Revolution. Kuokkala (Repino after 1948) is a settlement that dates back to medieval times and was first mentioned in 1323 in a treaty between Sweden and Novgorod.... Frequent wars and border clashes made living in these places unsafe. In 1568, 5 peasant families settled in a deserted village after another war. In 1590, 12 households were already listed in Kuokkal’s tax lists, but they all disappeared at the turn of the century. Most of the residents came to Kuokkala after the Northern War from the neighboring Kivenapa parish.... n 1714, by decree of Peter I , construction of an armory began on the s