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-bis History of St. Petersburg in the same city.
 
Sergey Nosov

I wrote here once in the spring a little essay on the cadet rebellion and its suppression, the first - in the long term civil war - bloody of murder, which occurred on the fourth day after the almost bloodless coup. And how the Leningrad authorities immortalized in his day a memorable sign, depicting the cannon, the very place from which the revolutionary sailors point-blank shot Vladimirskoye Infantry School. I wanted to return to the subject a few days later - still on the nose round date: those events will soon be ninety years old.

And now contemplated to talk about the names of our city. Zavarov strong tea, and sit up in the morning for your computer and knock the first sentence: "For some time I was not feeling that I live where I live, not in St. Petersburg."

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Here - the phone. Phoned my friend, a resident of the Petrograd side, he rides a bike on his own Pioneer Street. "I put you on notice that toppled Vladimirskoye ..."

I do not believe it. First, the building of the former Vladimirsky infantry school - a whole block, and secondly, it is protected zone of St. Petersburg, and thirdly, the historical monument in the fourth, Wednesday, her element ... Fifth ... Sixth ... etc.

From Haymarket to Chkalovsky the subway two stops. Twenty minutes.

Came, he saw. What can I say? That failed in October the seventeenth year, in an exemplary performed in October zero six. After suppressing the revolt in October released a postcard with a view of the school, disfigured by two breaches of artillery shells, you can compare. Feeling of October this: bombed quarter as if from an airplane.

Everything has been largely destroyed by tall heaps of brick crawl excavator, the boom which is written in large letters "Terminator". Through a cloud of dust comes out a piece of land protruding from the walls, adorned with unpretentious-sweeping graffiti: "The sun! Good morning! Everything will be fine! "Six months ago, passing by, took pictures - I do not know why - a strange appeal of the mysterious sun worshipers. For some, perhaps mysterious reasons, has not been touched.

Due to the blue fence, go chiefs in colorful helmets, go past me. "And that will be built here?" - One (grimly): "Our business is to clear the area. - "I do not leave?". - "Nothing." - "And when the end?" - "Last month'll manage."

Unbelievable. I have many ways to understand ... interests, buying and selling ... but here's the notorious mystic St. Petersburg: a month and just turns ninety years since that day. Okay, sryli, but the prohibitive expressiveness, it is something where? It is a why? Well it can not be such that podgadali special!

Unable to explain the fantastic coincidence, I start myself to indulge in fantasies. Here, I present to high-ranking person in the room comes from somewhere below the proposal to install a memorial plaque: "In this building October 29, 1917 ..." How? Anniversary? What the hell story? Set the board - then will not be torn up. Then what about a business center?

Otherwise I can not explain.

It is now almost night, I stuffed these letters, and seven hundred meters from the fortress are operating TERMINATOR.

So you can find and set. Why not touch on attractions, with all sort of nonsense is obtained. Invented a hero of the job - to guard the warehouse linseed oil in the industrial zone near the abandoned cemetery Gromov, and immediately pulled it awake highway, and the asphalt is already moving to the graves. Posted heroine in the 80 years of working as a typist in the Palace of Culture. Kapranov - and then, in our days, demolished this monument of constructivism. And rapidly growing in its place a multi-mnogozhilischnoe something resembling a tower of Babel. Here - referred Vladimirskoye infantry, staring at him with a gun-pillar, and ...

After some thought, you know, however, that it's not in your vision and even less in the magic power of words - all much easier. Here, you know, working principle of "wherever tkni ...". Wherever tkni, everywhere in St. Petersburg that something happens. Somewhere break, somewhere clearing, somewhere buried previously dug, seal noncontractible, calling something loudly not St Petersburg.

Man-of-Gazprom said loudly: Petersburg-de needs new characters.

How to know him, what needs to Petersburg? In a prophetic dream told him to St. Petersburg on their aspirations?

What is St. Petersburg and needs - so this is not to cut down on the living. And so he did not impose foreign concepts, not tailored to "world standards", was compelled to imitate Moscow.

One might think that a new symbol - from the Babylonian pointless high skyscraper - a readable any meaning other than literal humiliation of the old and enduring symbol of the city - the golden guardian angel Petersburg stodvadtsatimetrovuyu ascended to the heights.

City is experiencing break-up - in both senses. His break, and it breaks. He ceases to understand who he is.

High-ranking city officials with a simple proudly declare: "Saint Petersburg - is already a brand."

And we thought, even the name.

And I do not think is that the name "Saint Petersburg" is the correct name of our city.

I easily called it St Petersburg, when it was Leningrad. In Leningrad, even after all the destruction, the real Petersburg remained higher than in the current city.

Area Worldwide more like the Haymarket than the current Hay, ceased to be an area of the World.

At the time of St. Petersburg Leningrad writers believed Nekrasov and Dostoevsky. In Leningrad times in this city lived Leningrad writers - including Anna Akhmatova, who saw himself Leningrader. And it is strange no one thought. I myself barely managed to capture the "Leningrad period. But suddenly, overnight, all of St. Petersburg became writers, like found themselves without invitations at a literary dinner at the table with Viazemsky and Zhukovsky. I long bothered khaljavnogo expression "Petersburg writer", which applies to our own, Leningrad person. To be honest, still not used to.

Leningradets - which means fate. Lenin here has nothing to do. Whatever the city was called, endured the siege, though his name - any! - Would be assured to experience unprecedented test.

Increasingly, talk about heaven Petersburg. Where can still be the soul of St. Petersburg, nor in the upper chambers of the world?

And that here on earth?

As ideas, as Eidos Petersburg and Leningrad in the same way that we are closed - as offering a sacrifice of their material embodiment in the space of the city. One could say "the future of St. Petersburg", if this was the name of the future. Becoming a brand name of "Saint Petersburg" is no longer true name of this place. Increasingly, "St. Petersburg" seems a pseudonym. And not one to me. The city was caught in the names and troubles of his own history. The true name is not given to us to guess. You can certainly find a suitable - in a first approximation to what we have.

St. Petersburg-bis, for example. "Encore" in an unchanged value - "double", "re". Required ostentatious cry of delight - in excess of mad applause deliberate new glitter and glamor.

October 12, 2007

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