Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
In the first film, the protagonist, Igor Grom, an officer of the Saint Petersburg police, appears as a veritable Russian superman without any evident weaknesses or, as critics noted, motivation. One is left with the impression that people endowed by nature with incredible willpower and a sense of justice invariably
Books · People · Saint Petersburg
Listen to the dream of night, do not miss the falling star… along my streets, an Invisible Shade, I shall walk behind you… Look (I pine so in the desert far from beloved places…): is the water in the Neva still blue? Has the cross not yet been taken from
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Gerakov writes that Peter married Catherine (Alexeyevna, that is, Marta) of the Skavronsky family in May 1707, and that on 18 December 1709 the Tsesarevna Elizabeth Petrovna was born to them. This is untrue. Peter was wedded to Catherine only in February 1712, and the betrothal was announced in 1711.
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In what dread expanse I behold The Slave apart from Man, One, like the sun in a clear sky, The Other as gloomy as the earth. One is everything, the other a nullity, If only he had known his slavish duty, Had questioned nature; had examined Who is to blame
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The winner of the fourth category of the The Art Newspaper Russia XII awards, Exhibition of the Year, is “First Position. Russian Ballet” at the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, Saint Petersburg. The prize is presented by Alisa Prudnikova, director of VAC
Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The two-seater carriage of Alexander II, in which the Emperor was travelling at the time of the attempt on his life on 1 (13) March 1881. In the course of this attempt Alexander II was wounded and died. As can be seen, the bomb severely damaged the body of
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Archive · Art · Education · Saint Petersburg
"I remember that in the private Tenishev studio run by Repin, a student turned up in our group who proved to be colour-blind. He drew well, but when he took up the brush, faces and objects acquired unnatural colours and shades under his hand. Repin did not know
Cinema · Books · Saint Petersburg
Kusturica has said that he will shoot his next film in Saint Petersburg and Siberia. It is to be called “Crime Without Punishment”, a blend of “The Idiot” and “Crime and Punishment”. After Dostoevsky, Kusturica intends to set about adapting Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s international bestseller “Laurus”, and then something from
Faith · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The throne chair of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, with an embroidered Maltese cross on its back, made for Paul I in 1799-1800 to a design by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi. Paul I was elected Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. And that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.. The story of Job, one of the greatest of the righteous, has drawn many artists, but one of the most piercing illustrations
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