Quotes About St. Petersburg

In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street. By a long, thin window, a child in a pale blue dress and pale green slippers waited for a bird to marry her.

In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.

This sounded, even to the Russians of the time, like a fairy tale out of some opera in St. Petersburg's gilded theaters; but the hunger, the poverty, and the desperation were real. The

Lunch in Paris, dinner in St. Petersburg had been the kaiser's terse summation of German grand strategy.

Se llevaron el cadáver y le dieron sepultura. Y San Petersburgo se quedó sin Akaki Akákievich, como si nunca hubiera existido. Desapareció para siempre ese ser a quien nadie defendió, por quien nadie profesó afecto ni mostró el menor interés ; ni siquiera despertó la curiosidad de los naturalistas; siempre dispuestos a clavar un alfiler a una simple mosca para observarla a un microscopio.