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Mad people of St. Petersburg
On top of barriers with Igor Pomerantsev
Before Pushkin, Russian poets wrote about St. Petersburg majestically and solemnly. But already at Pushkin, these majestic verbal columns trembled. A dusk, a swamp, fog appeared, and then went and went: “Everything is a deception on Nevsky ... a monster, folded from people and stones ... swamp lights ... consumption ... fever ... rot ... haze ... gmara ... nonsense."
What is the genealogy of this Petersburg literary insanity?
Conversation with St. Petersburg philologists, writers, musicians, poets ...
About the heritage of the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikaloyus Churlenis (1875-1911), his great-grandson, pianist Rokas Zubovas and statesman, musicologist Vitautas Landsbergis is said