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I Knew Two Lovers Who Lived in Petrograd in the Days of the Revolution and Did Not Notice It
Boris Pasternak
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For the 1894 fancy-dress ball at Count Sheremetev's, the Tsarevich Nicholas came as a falconer
In his diary the heir wrote: "In the evening I put on the kaftan of a 'falconer' from the time of Alexei Mikhailovich; Xenia dressed as a boyar's daughter, and Sandro as a captain of the streltsy. Went with him to the fancy-dress ball
Archive · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Admission prices at Saint Petersburg's main museums, from a twenty-year-old Afisha guidebook
Admission prices at Saint Petersburg's main museums, from a twenty-year-old Afisha guidebook. A ticket to the Hermitage museums: 15 roubles; entry to the Museum of Decorative and Applied Art: 10 roubles; to the Yelagin Palace: 5 roubles. Just twenty years ago! How is that for nostalgia?
NB! · Art · People · Saint Petersburg
Portraits of Tatyana Grigoryevna Gnedich (1907-1976) by Arthur Fonvizin and Nikolai Akimov, Late 1950s
Aristocracy · Education · People · Saint Petersburg
At the Leningrad University philological faculty, Tatyana Gnedich, great-great-grandniece of the translator of the «Iliad», was accused of concealing her noble origins
At the Leningrad University philological faculty, Tatyana Gnedich, great-great-grandniece of the translator of the «Iliad», was accused, in her postgraduate studies, of concealing her noble origins. When the accusation reached Gnedich herself, she objected: how could she possibly have concealed her nobility with the surname Gnedich, when the
NB! · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
On 13 March 1881, Alexander II was killed
Art · Saint Petersburg · Humour
What do you mean, VNEGR? What year do you think this is?
What do you mean, VNEGR? What year do you think this is? VNEGR was a mark of the Leningrad Porcelain Factory that designated items made outside the 15 groups adopted in production, that is, the factory's division by complexity of work and artistic value. As a rule, pieces
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Why Does Everything Most Beautiful Happen Just Before New Year?
Why does everything most beautiful happen just before New Year? The exhibition “Beauty and Style. A History of Fashion Photography. From the Collection of the Still Art Foundation” at the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum. It presents the photographers’ own prints by Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P.
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Sophie Marceau and the Church of the Saviour on Blood
Books · Science · People · Saint Petersburg
Vasily Adodurov, Adjunct of the Academy of Sciences and a contemporary of Lomonosov, played a weighty part as early as the 1730s in establishing the norms of Russian orthography
Vasily Adodurov, Adjunct of the Academy of Sciences and a contemporary of Lomonosov, played a weighty part as early as the 1730s in establishing the norms of Russian orthography. True, many of his ideas were too progressive and remained no more than a project. He thought it sensible to rid
Archive · Cinema · Society · Saint Petersburg
On 7 November 1917 the storming of the Winter Palace took place, the seat of the Provisional Government
On 7 November 1917 the storming of the Winter Palace took place, the seat of the Provisional Government. The well-known footage of the storming of the Winter Palace is in fact not documentary: this shot, like many others, comes from Nikolay Evreinov's theatrical production "The Storming
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg · Society Pages
The wedding of Prince George Mikhailovich Romanov and Rebecca Bettarini brought together in Saint Petersburg the aristocracy and members of royal families from all over Europe and not only from Europe
The wedding of Prince George Mikhailovich Romanov and Rebecca Bettarini brought together in Saint Petersburg the aristocracy and members of royal families from all over Europe and not only from Europe. It is the first wedding of descendants of the Romanov dynasty on Russian soil in more than 120 years.