The Komarov Botanical Institute is the leading botanical institution in Russia. It is located in St. Petersburg, and is named after the Russian botanist Vladimir Leontjevich Komarov (1869-1945). Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The institute's collections consist of outdoor and indoor gardens that are home to 120,000 species and varieties of plants, as well as herbarium collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and fungi. The collection is the largest in Russia, and among the three largest in the world. Part of a garden in Bristol, England A flower bed in the gardens of Bristol Zoo, England. ... In biology, a species is, loosely speaking, a group of related organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum... In Botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plants or plant parts, mainly in a dried form. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Yellow fungus For the fictional character, see Fungus the Bogeyman. ...

The history of the institute dates back to 1714, when Tsar Peter the Great ordered the establishment of a pharmaceutical garden on Vorony island to grow medicinal plants The Garden was reorganized in 1823 and renamed the Imperial Botanical Garden, and in 1913 renamed the Peter the Great Imperial Botanical Garden. After the 1917 revolution it became the Botanical Garden of the USSR, and in 1930 it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at that time the USSR Academy of Sciences. The following year the Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences merged into a new organization, the Botanical Institute, which is today the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. // Events August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. ... Tsar (Bulgarian цар, Russian царь,   listen?; often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires since 913, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century, and in Russia from 1547 to 1917 (although... Peter I Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia Peter I (Pyotr Alekseyvich) (9 June 1672–8 February 1725 [30 May 1672–28 January 1725 O.S.1]) ruled Russia from 7 May (27 April O.S.) 1682 until his death. ... 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Russian Academy of Sciences: main building Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ...