Abram

Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy five years old when he went forth from Haran.

Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Canaanite was at that time in the land.

And the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.

And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he-asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she-asses, and camels.