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Noses in their iPhones
Photograph by Vladimir Baranovsky, 1970s, Leningrad
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A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984
A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich
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Dostoevsky Was Sentenced to Death by Firing Squad
The sentence on Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was pronounced in November 1849. His offence was participation in the circle of Mikhail Petrashevsky. In the spring of 1849 the circle was broken up. Dostoevsky was arrested together with other participants in the gatherings. For the whole duration of the investigation he was
NB! · Archive · Geography · Books · Society · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
A statistical survey of the composition of the population of the Russian Empire on the basis of the 1897 census, with a hand-drawn diagram of national composition from Nikolai Alexandrovich Rubakin's book "Russia in Figures"
A statistical survey of the composition of the population of the Russian Empire on the basis of the 1897 census, with a hand-drawn diagram of national composition from the book "Russia in Figures. The Country. The People. The Estates. The Classes" by Nikolai Alexandrovich Rubakin, published in
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
"At the Restaurant", a painting by Charles Hoffbauer, created in 1907
The Hermitage collection
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg
Group photograph of the guests at the court masked ball held in the Hermitage on 13 February 1903 to mark the 290th anniversary of the House of Romanov, at which the whole nobility of the Russian Empire appeared in costumes of the pre-Petrine era
The hall, filled with ancient Russian folk, looked very beautiful indeed. So Nicholas II described in his diary his impressions of the celebrated ball in the Winter Palace.
Archive · Books · Monarchies · Science · Saint Petersburg
One of the earliest depictions of the Russian tricolour appears in a Dutch book on shipbuilding and flags of the late seventeenth century, where it is captioned as the Flag of His Tsarist Majesty of Muscovy
One of the earliest depictions of the Russian tricolour appears in a Dutch book on shipbuilding and flags of the late seventeenth century, where it is captioned as the Flag of His Tsarist Majesty of Muscovy. The book, «The New Dutch Shipbuilding», which contains essential information on the building of
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The Hermitage Completes Restoration of Rembrandt's "The Sacrifice of Abraham"
The Hermitage has completed the restoration of Rembrandt's "The Sacrifice of Abraham". The results of the work, which lasted four years, are presented at a temporary exhibition in the Apollo Hall of the Winter Palace. Specialists removed layers of yellowed varnish and later overpainting which for
Art · Cinema · People · Saint Petersburg
A Model of the Monument to Alexei Balabanov Unveiled in Saint Petersburg
The model shows the maintenance tram car in which Danila Bagrov took refuge from the gangsters in the film Brother. On the edge of the car sits the figure of the director. The monument will be cast in bronze at life size and installed in May next year in Yekaterinburg,
Faith · Art · Books · Saint Petersburg
Your image, tormenting and unsteady, I could not touch in the fog
Your image, tormenting and unsteady, I could not touch in the fog. "Lord!" I said by mistake, Not thinking at all of saying it. God's name, like a great bird, Flew out of my breast. Ahead of me thick fog swirls, And behind me an empty
Archive · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
On Reindeer
Postcard. Saint Petersburg: Kyakhta Tea Merchants' Association “Jin-Long”, 1900s.
Archive · Education · Society · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Homo homini amicus, collega et frater est: Man Is to Man a Friend, Comrade and Brother
The historian of antiquity Mark Naumovich Botvinnik (1917-1994) recalls Stalin's post-war reforms as an attempt by an ageing leader to bring back the feeling of youth. Old people begin to fancy that when they were young everything was much better: the snow was whiter, the water