Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades" : The old Countess's house . Actually the house of Countess Golitsyna on Malaia Morskaia 10. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.
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Moika Canal in winter. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991. |
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Moika canal embankment, House # 12, Pushkin Museum. The apartment on Moika 12 was Alexander Pushkin's last apartment and after the duel, he died here on January 29, 1837. Now it is a home-museum and retains Pushkin's furniture, including his library. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991 |
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Moika 12 courtyard with Pushkin statue. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991, |
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St. Petersburg metro station: Pushkinskaia, with statue of Pushkin. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991. |
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The Bronze Horseman on the North side of the Decembrist Square on the Neva. Statue erected to Peter the Great by Catherine the Great. Named after Pushkin's poem. Bronze horseman on a rearing horse,trampling a snake (Sweden) standing on a huge granite block. Created by Etienne Maurice Falconet between 1766-1778, head cast by his pupil Marie Collet. The block of Finnish granite weighs 1600 tons and was transported from a site where Peter presumably once stood, 6 miles from the city, partly over land, partly over sea on a double ship constructed specially for the purpose. Unveiled 1782. Inscription in Latin on one side, Cyrillic on the other: Peter the First, from Catherine the Second 1782." In Pushkin's poem the imperial horseback rider is contrasted to the "small man" Eugene, who during a flood gradually goes mad as he feels pursued by the statue of Peter. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998. |
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Bronze Horseman. Part of the Senate and Synod complex (Carlo Rossi 1829-34) can be seen in the background. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998. |
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Bronze Horseman. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991 |
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Bronze Horseman in winter with Macalester students Andrea Matthews and Ferrell McMahon. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1987. |
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Bronze Horseman. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991. |
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Bronze Horseman. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991 |
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Lions on the steps of the main entrance to the Lobanov-Rostovskii Palace on Admiralty Prospekt 12. These are the lions mounted by "poor" Evgenii to escape the flood and in emulation of Peter the Great on horseback in Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman." Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998. |
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Lion by Lobanov-Rostovskii palace mounted by Eugene in Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman." Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998. |
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The Pushkin House=Institute of Russian Literature on the Makarov Embankment of the Neva covered with iceflows. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1991 |
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Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades" : The old Countess's house . Actually the house of Countess Golitsyna on Malaia Morskaia 10. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998.
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Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades": The house of the old Countess. Photo: Gitta Hammarberg 1998. |
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