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The Dog Was Never Caught
The dog was never caught. From the siege diary of Tatyana Velikotnaya
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Figures from the Millennium of Russia: the first Romanov, Prince Pozharsky Mikhail with his sword drawn in defence of the fatherland amid our soldiers, and Vladimir Sviatoslavich with a cross raised to heaven, lying in the snow
Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Saint Petersburg
I came across a mention of Catherine II's erotic cabinet, supposedly discovered at Tsarskoye Selo by soldiers at the very start of the war
I came across a mention of Catherine II's erotic cabinet, supposedly discovered at Tsarskoye Selo by soldiers at the very start of the war. The story is murky and even contradictory, and there is a great deal of muddle in it. If soldiers found it, what were they
Almaty · Books · Society · People · Saint Petersburg
LENINGRADERS, MY CHILDREN!
Jambyl Jabayev Leningraders, my children! Leningraders, my pride! In the current of the steppe stream I see a glint of the Neva's current. If along the snowy ridges I glide my aged gaze, I see the arches of your bridges, The blueness of the Baltic dawns, The swarms
Coming Up · Archaeology · The East · Museums · Education · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage Lecture Hall launches a lecture series, “The Desert Castles of Khorezm”
The Hermitage Lecture Hall has launched a lecture series, “The Desert Castles of Khorezm”. Those of you in Saint Petersburg, do drop in for a cup of tea. Khorezm is a millennia-old Asian oasis, where excavations have uncovered settlements lost in the sands, irrigation works and necropolises. The next
NB! · Architecture · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The walls of the White Dining Room in the Grand Palace at Peterhof are decorated only with bas-reliefs of mythological subjects: no paintings, no bronze
Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
A virtual tour of the Russian Museum of Ethnography:
http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/virtualnye-tury
NB! · Archive · Faith · Society · Saint Petersburg
A Te Deum in the Colonnade Hall of the Tauride Palace before the Opening of the Fourth State Duma, 15 November 1912
NB! · Archive · Faith · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
Thanksgiving Service on the Occasion of Emperor Nicholas II's Visit to the Fourth State Duma, 9 February 1916
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The interior baptistery of the church, with the early Christian symbol of fishes
The interior baptistery of the church, with the early Christian symbol of fishes. A silver reliquary bearing the seal of the Emperor Justinian I was discovered here; it is now on display in the Hermitage
NB! · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg