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Russian Acedemy
of Arts Museum
presents its
collections on
St.Petersburg.
THREE HUNDRED YEARS
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An unknown eye-witness’s report about the foundation of St.Petersburg.
Pages from a diary found in the Hermitage…
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Larissa Seselkina
"One-hundred and two-hundred years ago."
Documents about the jubilee celebrations in our city
St. Petersburg, May 1803.
"They marched past to the monument to Peter the Great…"
St. Petersburg, May 1903.
Twenty-one gunshots announced the beginning of the celebrations.
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"Stand thou, O Peter's citadel..."
Poets - to St. Petersburg
Alexander Pushkin.
The Bronze Horseman
Afanasy Foeth.
The Aerial City
F.Tyutchev.
I love the Tsarskoselsky Gardens
...
A.Blok.
The monarch in the lyric morning
...
Wilhelm Zorgenfrey.
Over the Neva
Innokenty Annensky.
Petersburg
Osip Mandelstam.
The Admiralty
Boris Pasternak.
White night
Anna Akhmatova.
This wintry city where I wandered
...
Olga Bergholtz.
In memory of the defenders
Naum Korzhavin.
Leningrad
Alexander Kushner.
As at every doorstep grow rowan and maple
...
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Zvezda magazine for New East/Segodnya magazine about Joseph Brodsky.
He never left our city...
A Guide to a Renamed City
Dialogues with Joseph Brodsky
We lived in a city tinted the color of frozen vodka
The Brodsky Museum Has To Be Established
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St. Petersburg in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts Museum
"Thus, Catherine planned to provide the Academy with…"
The visible chronicles of the city
“Models provided the impending artistic enjoyment that was anticipated…”
From them Ancient Statues were cast…
A WINDOW ON THE WEST
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Jacques Chirac,
president of France:-
All of Europe has and must have links with St. Petersburg…
Which city is more European than yours?
- asked Chirac of the students during their meeting on the banks of the Neva River.
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President George Bush's meeting with the city on the Neva River.
What he learned about the contacts between Russian and American scientists at the St.Petersburg State University.
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Wim Kok
, ex-Prime minister of the Netherlands:-
St.Petersburg has aptly been called Russia's "window on the West"…
Fragments of his lecture in St.Petersburg.
BY THE NAME OF OUR CITY
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Olga Bobrova.
On the map of the world. Where are our namesakes?
A search undertaken on all continents...
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Cities-namesakes will celebrate their jubilees together,
resolved the Governors of two St.Petersburgs.
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St.Petersburg Times (USA): "Our two cities share a name and a desire to learn more about one another".
WHAT IS SHE LIKE, THE SOUL OF ST.PETERSBURG?
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"She is talented and enigmatic",
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believes Natalia Dudinskaya, an outstanding Russian ballerina.
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"You perceive it as long as you live",
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believed Mikhail Anikushin, a Full Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.
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"It possesses a powerful magnetic force",
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believes Viktor Boyarsky a polar explorer and scientist
.
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"
It must be creative
," believes artist Liza Mikhailova when answering the question "
The soul of St. Petersburg: what is she like?
"
TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD
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A Bridge Built in Cooperation with the French
.
It will be 100 years old on St. Petersburg's birthday
.
Russian Orders Awarded to French Citizens
.
Their names are on the span of the Trinity Bridge
.
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"To encourage the flourishing of sciences…"
Citizens of St.Petersburg elected Members of the French Academy of Sciences.
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The author's pen is inspired with love for truth and virtue.
Alexander Bestuzhev wrote a book about the city of Revel.
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- I brought you my Serbian Dictionary, - said Vuk Karadjich.
It was, first of all, in St.Petersburg that the founder of the Serbian literature introduced his new work to the specialists.
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A monument in Beijing.
A hundred and seventy years ago it was erected to a doctor from St. Petersburg in his lifetime.
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Anatoly Vladimirov. "The orient appears in all its magnificence".
From the banks of the Neva River to the banks of the Nile. The panorama of Cairo conceived in St.Petersburg.
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"Did I really listen to Liszt?"
The great maestro's concerts in St. Petersburg.
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Named after an italian singer.
More than a hundred and fifty years ago Giovanni Mario from Sardinia made his debut on the St.Petersburg opera stage. But the memory of him lives to this day. In the foyer of one of the opera houses of the northern capital there is a portrait of the Italian actor.
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He shed light on the annals of history.
Every book by him was an event. Works by an outstanding scholar Iakinth Michurin, translated into many European languages, were uncovering the unknown in the past of the countries of the East.
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Why was Rajah sri Radhakant Bagadur elected honorary member of the russian academy?
Seven volumes of the Sabdakalpadrum dictionary arrived to St.Petersburg from Calcutta.
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"
St. Petersburg gave
Dumas
a Hearty Russian Welcome
"
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The golden book of Lorraine.
In 1893, all of France was greeting a squadron from St.Petersburg.
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From the banks of the Neva river to Louis Pasteur.
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Bibliotheca Buddhica
is a St. Petersburg Publication
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They made Ceylon closer to Russia.
Ludmila and Alexander Mervart went from St.Petersburg into the depths of Ceylon. Time has saved their travel books.
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St. Petersburg and London promoted the rapprochement of the two countries.
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Yoshibumi Kurono's decades In St. Petersburg.
A hundred years ago on the banks of the Neva River he was teaching young Russians the Japanese language.
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Church on Mount Suragai
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The
Norway
dirigible over Nevsky Prospect
.
Why Umberto Nobile headed for Leningrad. How Leningrad helped the Amundssen expedition. Gratitude expressed by the great Norwegian
.
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For Tatiana Konn the city of her ancestors became her native city
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There are quite a few Russian museums and archives abroad.
They have been founded by our compatriots, by emigrants' public organizations or by scientific centres. They keep documents about St. Petersburg's past and we wish to appeal to these archives.
TIME DOES NOT RULE OVER THEM
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Even his contemporaries called him a great scientist.
Time does not rule over anything that was once invented in St.Petersburg by D. Mendeleev.
Mendellev in and out of Petersburg.
By Michael D. Gordin, professor of Harvard University, USA.
A discovery which served as a foothold.
By Dr.Masanori Kaji fromTokyo Institute of Technology.
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Yekaterina Danova.
Trace Left on the Land
.
N. Miklukho-Maklai's eight years in Australia.
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Russian Doctor
. A discovery acknowledged by the whole world.
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Between Mars and Jupiter. Planets named after citizens of St. Petersburg.
We are speaking to the Director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor Andrei Finkelstein
ON THE BANKS OF THE NEVA RIVER
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Three days in Verharn' s life.
The poet spent them in St.Petersburg visiting places where lived and worked his favourite writer Dostoyevsky.
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Who Was Count Abai?
Record book from Ethiopia. The first diplomatic mission from Addis-Ababa to the banks of the Neva River. Nikolai Leontyev - a friend of Menelik II
.
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"This country had a rich, powerful and fairytale past",
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believed a St.Petersburg artist after he had studied the art of Africa. His unique book was created in Petrograd.
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The flower from the Freiki valley.
Friendship between a St.Petersburg academician and an Arabic writer was extraordinary.
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André Malraux visited St. Petersburg together with Meyerhold
.
The French writer and minister was convinced that this city did not have any analogues!
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"And now I want to see Nevsky Prospect."
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"I listen how the flagstones respond to my steps",
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wrote Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky about Tallin.
THEY REMAINED CITIZENS OF ST.PETERSBURG
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The Trubetskoy Family
from the time of Peter the Great to the present day
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Sergei Sikorsky (USA) is telling about his father,
the national hero of Russia, the creator of the first multi-engine giant planes, who in the early 1918 had to leave Petrograd for good. The interview opens a new section on our site called They remained citizens of St.Petersburg.
Natella Safonova,
museum director.
The name of the great aircraft designer has been recalled.
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Norbert Wiener (USA): "… He became my enthusiastic and sincere backer ".
One of the creators of cybernetics said that his American recognition began through the St.Petersburg scientist Yakov Tamarkin.
Yakov Tamarkin's scientific school.
A whole generation of mathematicians from Rhode Island were students of the St.Petersburg professor.
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He was the first in the Pleiades of
outstanding
scientists
. What Stepan Timoshenko brought to America from St.Petersburg
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The Russian State Archives of Economics
presents pages from the history of
St. Petersburg
based on documents from its funds
Julia Belchich
"
Geniuses aren’t born often!
"
V. Yurkevich
"Shipbuilding Department at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute named after Emperor Peter the Great in Lesnoye".
YESTERDAY AND TODAY
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"Our hearts are with you",
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women of Scotland assured women in the besieged city. Letters arrived to Leningrad, which was besieged by the Nazi.
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- Our front honoured Nizami like Nizami was honouring heroes,
- said poet and soldier Nikolai Tikhonov at the jubilee meeting in the besieged Leningrad.
In those days of hardships only the Hermitage observed the great poet's anniversary.
- It was Nizami who used to say that a word coming from the heart gets right into the heart,
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reminded Vladimir Putin at the opening of the monument to the great poet of the East in St.Petersburg.
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In the halls of the Palace of Arts.
A record of an interview with academician I. Orbeli that was found 57 years after the fact.
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When the Hermitage will be 250 years old…
Tells Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum.
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We are responsible for the future of the cultural legacy of Europe
.
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India and St. Petersburg: friendship on the icy continent.
Partnership formed in Antarctica
.
THE PRESENT - THE FUTURE
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A think-tank, not just a training centre.
.
Bonch-Bruevich University.
. Scientists training telecom engineers… The roots of television…
New ideas and technologies...
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Global Problems Interweave Here
.
Sergei Vetlugin
, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policies and Trade, answers our question.
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Ministers of Transport of the Countries of Europe and Asia will Meet in St. Petersburg Again
.
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Our Yesterday and Our Today
. Interview with
Alexander Parfyonov
, general director
Lenmorniiproekt
public company.
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What will St.Petersburg be like?
Oleg Kharchenko, Head Architect of St.Petersburg, is looking into the city's future.
THE ARCTIC: FAR AND NEAR
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Ascent to High Latitudes. Chronicle of a Century.
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From Saint Petersburg - to the drifting ice floe.
A new research station is being created
CONSUL GENERALS ON OUR SITE
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May Andersson,
Consul General of Sweden, St. Petersburg:
St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary will be celebrated all year long.
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Alexander Kelchevsky, Consul General of France in St.Petersburg:
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To restore St.Petersburg's former grandeur…
FROM THE CITY'S CHRONICLES
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A steamship named "Elizabeth".
In the footsteps of this publication, in one of the magazines of that time we found a report about the maiden voyage of the ship.
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From St.Petersburg to Kronshtadt.
Bird steamship's first journey.
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Here Lomonosov spoke about Estonia
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Engelhardt's House in Nevsky Prospect.
Music by the world's greatest composers was first performed at its concerts.
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"Here, the interest to the Estonian language and literature is much more lively…",
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wrote F.R. Kreitsvald from St.Petersburg, emphasizing the responsiveness and cordiality of the people he had met there.
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"The construction of the railroad must be commenced…"
.
About the construction of the railroad from St.Petersburg to Helsinki.
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"People will live as long as their language lives",
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believed a Russian teacher. Unique collection of periodicals from Georgia.
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A scientist from St. Petersburg was at the start of the Olympic movement
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"Gratitude expressed in Paris"
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A high appraisal won by G. Tchernetsov from the entire metallurgical industry.
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To the great kobza-player.
In November, 1918 a monument to the Ukranian national poet Taras Shevchenko was unveiled in St.Petersburg.
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It was in May, 1942…
Gratitude expressed by Dgavaharlal Neru, Prime minister of India, to the Leningrad indologist Vladimir Kalyanov.
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It was the beginning of a new style in art
. A report about a unique collection of drawings, paintings and sculpture by the students of the Institute of the Peoples of the North.
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The Theatre of Europe is just two steps off Nevsky Prospect.
Lev Dodin's theatre is just two steps off Nevsky prospect.
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The printing-house named after the first Russian printer is
one hundred years old
On our site we display documentary materials from
the funds of the St.Petersburg Central State
Cinema Photo and Phono Archives
