Quotes About St. Petersburg

I studied Russian history at school, and I absolutely loved St Petersburg. It was magnificent - the architecture is incredible and has quite a significant Dutch influence.

St. Petersburg—"Peter" to insiders—was renamed Petrograd at the start of the war in an attempt to erase its Germanic origins. From the first months of 1915, the atmosphere in the city had changed completely.

official capital of Russia in 1718 and remains to this day one of the world's most beautiful cities.

He was no longer in Russia, he thought. He was in a tsarist dreamland, imported from the West and built by terrorized peasants. Florence called to him from the facades of the Baroque palaces, and, crossing the Moyka River, he dreamed of Venice. He wondered how many bodies lay beneath the ice. Thousands, he thought. Tens of thousands. No other city in the world concealed the horrors of its past more beautifully than St. Petersburg.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

En ook van jullie, jonge schonen, Die huiswaarts rijdt des avonds laat In koetsjes die hun driestheid tonen In onze Peterburgse straat, Wou mijn Jevgeni niets meer horen. Het feesten had hij afgezworen, Hij sloot zich op in huis, hij nam Verveeld een pen en was van plan Te schrijven - doch, hoe graag hij wilde, Nooit hield hem arbeid lang geboeid; Niets is er uit zijn pen gevloeid

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

Who did I fight? I fought terrorists. Who did I protect? I protected the whole of Russia so that people in Moscow or St. Petersburg... could live in peace.

For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

de ouro para a literatura russa, com Turguêniev, Tolstói e Dostoiévski no auge do vigor criativo. Foi uma época importante também para a música: Tchaikóvski tornou-se aluno do Conservatório de São Petersburgo, fundado em 1862, e imediatamente depois de se formar foi convidado para dar aulas no Conservatório de Moscou, fundado em 1866

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Petrograd (St. Petersburg's new name since the outbreak of war, when the government decided that "St. Petersburg" sounded Teutonic)

I've been very well received by all the people I've met in St. Petersburg.

A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg.

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

St. Petersburg, under the czars, had been a grand city. It was a planned city, and it had - there were all these Parisian architects who had been brought in to build the apartment buildings in the center of town.

I am going to move to St. Petersburg," Boris said, his voice a crisp rasp. "You have relatives there?" Rostnikov said, ignoring the non sequitur. "No, never. That is why I want to go there.

For a number of Russian writers and poets, St. Petersburg is a mythical city; to Irène Némirovsky it was nothing more than a collection of dark, snow-covered streets, swept by the icy wind that rose from the disgusting, polluted canals of the Neva.

In February 2016, Russia arrested seven alleged ISIS militants who were plotting attacks in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The group included Russians and Central Asians and a ringleader who had come from Turkey.

Putin's influence in St. Petersburg, however, did not stem solely from his regulatory authority.

At the same time, Putin's background in the security services facilitated his use of the law-enforcement apparatus. In his autobiography, Putin emphasized the unity of St. Petersburg's law-enforcement agencies during the early 1990s, a unity that he had helped to forge.

Putin demanded that St. Petersburg companies register with the Committee for External Relations to turn over data on their finances. Working with the tax inspectorate, Putin's analysts examined firms' tax payment records.

appears to have produced substantial tax revenue.26 One St. Petersburg city council member fumed that the scheme utilized "secret service methods" to extract payments.27 True: that was the point.

Putin discovered that his sources of financing had dried up, even as St. Petersburg's mafia bosses collected pots of money for Sobchak's opponents.29 When the votes were counted, Sobchak lost the mayoralty, and Putin lost his job. The consequences were worse for Sobchak, who faced not only the end of his political career but