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THE ICE RENAISSANCE.(St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg was a bog on the Gulf of Finland until, in 1703, Peter the Great decided to transform it into an imperial capital, and conscripted more than seven hundred thousand Russian subjects to clear the forests, level the hills, drain the swamps, and dig canals. The city's emblem is the Bronze Horseman, an eerie statue of Peter astride a rearing steed, apparently about to leap off a cliff and into the Neva. A century after Peter's death, the statue inspired Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman," a poem that dramatizes the great flood of 1824 as the revenge of "the elements" against the Tsar and his city. That's the myth of St. Petersburg in a nutshell: Peter, ...
- Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to Lenin's...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Petschauer, Peter W. January 1, 2001 700+ words
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to Lenin's Mausoleum. By Martin Malia. (Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xii...
- Russia under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin...
- History: Review of New Books ALEXANDER, JOHN T. March 22, 1999 700+ words
Malia, Martin E. Russia under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum Cambridge: Harvard University Press 512 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-674-78120-1 Publication Date...
- Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausaleum....
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Hanson, Gary Alan December 1, 2001 700+ words
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausaleum, by Martin Edward Malia. Cambridge Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1999. xii...
- Russia Under Western Eyes--From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin...
- Magazine article from: Comparative Economic Studies Van Brabant, Jozef M. December 22, 1999 700+ words
Malia, Martin, Russia Under Western Eyes--From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum, Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, xiv + 514 pp., index...
- Cobblestone resources.(OFF THE SHELF)('The Captain's Daughter' and 'The Bronze...
- Magazine article from: Calliope May 1, 2009 700+ words
...novel The Captain's Daughter, which offers a sympathetic account of the Pugachev rebellion. * the narrative poem "The Bronze Horseman," where a poor clerk imagines that the statue of Peter the Great comes down off its pedestal and chases him around the...
- The Bronze Horseman.(monument of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg, Russia)
- Magazine article from: Calliope Hoisington, Sona S. May 1, 2009 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Early in her reign, Catherine resolved to erect a monument to Peter the Great in the very center of St. Petersburg. It took almost 20 years to realize this goal. No other project she undertook reveals so clearly her daring and determination and, at the same time, her ability
- The Father Of Modern Russia
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Glen Petrie August 30, 1987 700+ words
...in the opening lines of "The Bronze Horseman," HE was. For the educated 19th...the Arctic port of Arkhangelsk-ice-free only three or four months...Peter I." Pushkin, in "The Bronze Horseman," uniquely encapsulated the Russian...
- By the book.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 15, 2000 700+ words
...Petersburg to attend Catherine the Great in her glittering, ice-bound court. The visit was overdue. Years before, when...remains of Descartes and follow Falconet in the making of the "bronze horseman", his great equestrian statue of Tsar Peter. On the whole...
