January 27th, 1944 And in the starless January night, Itself amazed at its unprecedented destiny, Delivered from Death’s abyss, Leningrad toasts itself. 1944 -Anna Akhmatova (Translated by me)… more →
Mikhailych's Weblogcontoveros wrote 1 month ago: First photos from Greece appeared on my blog today. They were photographed from the Aegean Sea port … more →
paveikslai wrote 1 month ago: New ways of learning about history! New ways of seeing time! Has the regime gone? Russian photograph … more →
viktorandsergei wrote 2 months ago: I steal football jacket from great friend. This man, he is only nice to me, always nice! He make pot … more →
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nikolaykotev wrote 2 months ago: Thank you for visiting my personal pages. My posts mostly reflect on various topics concerning … more →
MOTOR BOOKS wrote 3 months ago: OSP AEU 33: No.56 Sqn RAF/RFC OSP CAM 215: Leningrad 1941-44, The epic siege OSP ELI 174: American C … more →
businesspetersburg wrote 3 months ago: Tsarskoye Selo is commonly known as the city of Alexander Pushkin, the Great Russian poet. It is als … more →
luusanina wrote 3 months ago: Thơ của anh Blok thường dài, và thường có nội dung phức tạp, phải tìm hiểu xuất xứ, hoàn cảnh sáng t … more →
russiaexplained wrote 3 months ago: In today’s BBC News article, Orlando Figes, a history professor at London’s Birkbeck col … more →
mvlturner wrote 3 months ago: Only the evening like honey comes to stare into the cross-hatch of faces etched in the grime, the bl … more →
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gustines wrote 4 months ago: City of Thieves, by David Benioff. Viking (2008), 272 pages. In September of 1941, just two and a h … more →
Alec L wrote 4 months ago: Alexander Belinky, the St. Petersburg Times staff photographer, gave me some of his best photos from … more →
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robpageiii wrote 4 months ago: On our second day in Saint Petersburg, we attempted to conquer the Hermitage Museum. It is located i … more →
Zach Tracer wrote 5 months ago: Looking in from the entrance to Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery. The Second World War—and in Lening … more →
Zach Tracer wrote 5 months ago: Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Entirely by accident, I visited the Monument to the He … more →
Lisa wrote 5 months ago: The author of City of Thieves, David Benioff, is a rather well-known screenwriter, having written th … more →