Voices from the Windows. A Journey into the History of St. Petersburg. Houses as Witnesses of Fates
Voices from the Windows. A Journey into the History of St. Petersburg. Houses as Witnesses of Fates
19.99 €
The style of presentation of information chosen by the author is unique: first, a quote from a famous work or memoir is taken, and Ekaterina supplements it with her own fabrications and information from reliable sources, thus introducing her readers to the history of their hometown. Let's look into the windows that the passion-obsessed hero of Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" Hermann peered into, find out where Dostoevsky hurried home to ask the landlady for a candle, lock himself in his room and continue creating. Let's read where the young poet Dmitry Merezhkovsky brought his young wife Zinaida Gippius to meet his parents...
And have you ever thought, walking through the city along your usual route, that somewhere here, in a parallel St. Petersburg reality, another life is taking place - the stories of people who loved, suffered, felt within these very walls? The steps you are climbing hear the sound of Akhmatova's worn-out heels, and the same stone you have just tripped over is the same stone Rasputin is stumbling over as he runs away from his murderers... The walls of old St. Petersburg houses have preserved the images of their heroes, real and fictional, and we, after tens and hundreds of years, need only pull on the shaky thread of time, can hear their voices coming from the open windows.
And have you ever thought, walking through the city along your usual route, that somewhere here, in a parallel St. Petersburg reality, another life is taking place - the stories of people who loved, suffered, felt within these very walls? The steps you are climbing hear the sound of Akhmatova's worn-out heels, and the same stone you have just tripped over is the same stone Rasputin is stumbling over as he runs away from his murderers... The walls of old St. Petersburg houses have preserved the images of their heroes, real and fictional, and we, after tens and hundreds of years, need only pull on the shaky thread of time, can hear their voices coming from the open windows.
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