April 24 (May 5), 1762 Chancellor M. I. Vorontsov and the Prussian envoy, Baron R. Goltz, signed the Treaty of St. Petersburg between the Russian Empire and Prussia, which stopped the war between the two powers.
On April 22 (May 5), 1912 in Petersburg was published the first issue of the first daily legal worker’s newspaper in Russia created on Lenin’s initiative called ‘Pravda’. The newspaper issue started upon the resolution of the 6th All-Russian conference of RSDRP which took place in Prague in 1912 in reply to workers’ desire to have their own daily paper.