St Petersburg

Thomson, Virgil, 435

Thoreau, Henry David, 530

Timenchik, Roman, 175, 185

Tishchenko, Boris, 485, 487, 488

Toller, Ernst, 311-12

Tolstikov, Vassily, 511-12, 515

Tolstoy, Alexei, 171, 433

Tolstoy, Count Dmitri, 206

Tolstoy, Leo, 76, 94, 126, 127, 153, 155, 161, 162, 166, 176, 284, 453

Tomashevsky, Boris, 371, 453

Toporov, Vladimir, xiv

Toscanini, Arturo, 355, 363, 435

Tovstonogov, Georgy, 499-501

The Tower, 177-80, 190, 217, 405

TRAM. See Theater of Worker Youth (TRAM)

Trauberg, Leonid, 301-03, 454-56, 458-61, 463

Trediakovsky, Vassily, 16 Trepov, Fyodor, 91

Trepov, Fyodor, 91

Triumphal Gate, 133

Troitsky Theater, 273, 276, 277

Trotsky, Leon, 145, 203, 338, 372-73

Trubetskoy, Paolo, 215-16

Tsekhanovsky, Mikhail, 495

Tsoy, Viktor, 535

Tsvetayeva, Marina, 164, 167, 171, 173-74, 229-30, 239-40, 320

Tulipanov, Igor, 513

Turgenev, Ivan, 42, 47, 94, 96, 97, 126, 176, 227

Tynyanov, Yuri, 180, 288, 344, 371, 380, 386-89, 424, 453, 455-56, 498, 522

Tyrsa, Nikolai, 495

Tyshler, Alexander, 184

Tyutchev, Fyodor, 41, 43

Ufliand, Vladimir, 522

Ulanova, Galina, 311, 502, 503, 506

Union of Soviet Writers, 411, 465, 469, 510

Union of Youth, 271-72, 275-77, 282, 288, 394

Ustvolskaya, Galina, 485, 531

Utesov, Leonid, 310

Vaganova, Agrippina, 503

Vaginov, Konstantin, 404-07, 417, 441, 526, 539

Vainonen, Vassily, 501

Van Gogh, Vincent, 50, 188, 452

Vasilyev, Georgy, 458, 459

Vasilyev, Sergei, 458, 459

Vasmi, Rikhard, 529

Vasnetsov, Yuri, 495

Verbitskaya, Anastasia, 165, 175

Vereshchagin, Vassily, 94, 103-105, 106, 109

Vertinsky, Alexander, 181

Vertov, Dziga, 459

Verzhbilovich, Alexander, 361

Vestris, 506-07

Vielgorsky, Count Matvei, 71-72

Vielgorsky, Count Mikhail, 71-72

Vigdorova, Frida, 476

Vinogradov, Oleg, 539

Vishnevsky, Vsevolod, 426-27, 445-46

Vītols, Jāzeps, 343

Volkonskaya, Princess Zinaida, 164

Volodin, Alexander, 499-500, 526

Volokhova, Natalya, 180-81

Voloshin, Maximilian, 170, 171-72, 174

Volynsky, Akim, 192-93, 292, 297-98, 300-01, 308, 309, 315, 381

Vovstonogov, Georgy, 499-501

Voznesenskaya, Yulia, 531

Voznesensky Prospect, 44

Vsevolodsky-Gerngross, Vsevolod, 309-10, 316

Vsevolvozhsky, Ivan, 257

Vulfius, Pavel, 393

Vvedensky, Alexander, 397, 493, 539

Vyazemsky, Prince Peter, xii, 26

Wagner, Richard, 65, 72, 115, 132, 147, 318, 346, 368, 434

Walter, Bruno, 355

Wanderers, 78, 82-83, 89, 90, 94, 95, 132, 358, 492

Wieniawsky, Henryk, 360, 361

Winter Palace, 15, 29-30, 42, 73, 89, 92, 93, 145, 195, 204, 205, 213, 284

Wolzogen, Ernst von, 190

World War I, 195-200, 206-09, 247, 289, 310, 315, 377, 421

World War II, xvi, 105, 110-11, 396-97, 425-29, 432-42, 445-49, 469, 479, 489-90, 526

Yakobson, Leonid, 148-49, 501, 506-07

Yakovlev, Alexander, 317, 492

Yakubinsky, Lev, 288

Yaroshenko, Nikolai, 94

Yeltsin, Boris, 545

Yeltsin, Sergei, 489

Yermilov, Vladimir, 387

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 483

Young Ballet, 307-12, 314, 390

Yudina, Maria, 306, 364-69, 370, 371, 401, 485, 531

Yuriev, Yuri, 200-04, 287

Yursky, Sergei, 500

Yutkevich, Sergei, 302, 454, 457

Zabolotsky, Nikolai, xxi, 393, 396-98, 401, 416, 417, 489

Zadkine, Osip, 183

Zagoskin, Mikhail, 249-50

Zakharov, Rostislav, 501, 502

Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 31, 217, 374-76, 381, 390, 393, 408, 459, 536

Zasulich, Vera, 91

Zhdanov, Andrei, 35, 81n, 416, 426-27, 440, 449-51, 463, 479, 490, 537-38

Zhdanovshchina, 81n, 449-54, 463, 538

Zheverzheyev, Levky, 269-73, 275-78, 281-86, 288, 291, 307, 311, 315

Zheverzheyeva, Tamara, 269, 285, 286

Zhirmunsky, Viktor, 221, 453

Zhitinsky, Alexander, 531-32

Zhitkov, Boris, 493

Zhukovsky, Vassily, 26

Zimbalist, Efrem, 74, 361

Zinoviev, Grigory, 229, 234-37, 338, 381, 413, 414, 415, 537

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 290, 376-80, 382-83, 388, 391, 392, 398, 401, 406-07, 429, 449-51, 465, 469, 470, 524, 526, 537, 538, 539

Zubov, Aleksei, 16

Zubov, Count Valentin, 370

Zubov House, 371

Zurmüllen, Sofia, 305

Zweig, Stefan, 293

 

Peter the Great was challenging, demanding, deliberately outrageous, full of contradictions. His idea of establishing a new city in 1703—the future capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg—appeared as the whim of an incredibly rich, reckless, and lucky gambler. Peter wanted to astonish Russia and the entire civilized world, and he succeeded.

(Top) At the unvelling of the monument to Peter the Great in 1782, the gratified Peterbugers could nt foresee the Etienne Falconet’s work would become the most important representation of their city.

(Above) The flooding of Peterburg in 1824 inpired the creation of Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman in 1833. Thus nature, culture, and history collided conpicuously.

(Right) The Bronze Horseman, at once dashing into the sky and rooted in stone, gave birth to the legend that as long the monument remained in place Peterburg would not perish.