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Peter Demens (May 13 [O.S. May 1] 1850 – January 21, 1919), [1] born Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Дементьев), was a Russian nobleman who migrated in 1881 to the United States and became a railway owner and one of the founders of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
May 3, 2013 · Having reestablished his fortune, Peter Demens wrote extensively about Russian politics and his experiences in the United States, the latter writings collected and published in Russia with some popular success, as well as translating the poetry of Mikhail Lermontov into English.
Jun 29, 2020 · Dementyev — now going by an anglicized form of his name, Peter Demens — took a steamboat deep into the backcountry, where, after a stint as a day laborer, he used the $3000 he had brought with...
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Today, Peter Demens is remembered with a monument and historical marker in Demens Landing Park, site of the first railroad pier in St. Petersburg. Remembered as a founding father of the city, Demens also built the first hotel there, the Detroit.
Jan 15, 2017 · Peter Demens, one of St Pete's founding fathers brought a rail line to the Sunshine City and helped put it on the map.
Introduction. I have been studying Peter Demens and the histories of the two St. Petersburgs and their interactions for many years. I became interested in these topics in 1966 when I first arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida to teach Russian History at Florida Presbyterian College.
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Peter A. Demens (May 1, 1850 - January 21, 1919), Russian immigrant, entrepreneur, and builder, was a bold if not always successful player in the derring-do capitalism of three late 19 th century American boom towns. Before his arrival in Asheville in 1889, Demens had built a railroad on Florida’s Gulf Coast that led to the development of the ...
