Petersburg By phone on December 31st Alexandra Vasilievna Pletneva, the widow of P.A. Pletnev, a famous writer and friend of Pushkin, has died. The deceased, a Muscovite by birth, nee Princess Shchetinina-Rostovskaya, died after a long painful illness at the age of 76. Until the end of her days, she retained the freshness of her mind and that seductive charm of communication, which made her many friends in the literary and artistic world.

Among newspapers and magazines Valery Bryusov, the head of the Russian decadents, spoke in the Russian Archive with a bibliographic article about the new edition of Pushkin's "Rusalka"... What does this mean? Is this excursion into the field of bibliography due to the exhaustion of super-decadent sensations?

People's Control Page The bodies of people's control at the enterprises of the All-Union Association "Soyuzpodemtransmash" of the Ministry of Tyazhmash have identified excess metal reserves. In some enterprises, the practice of exchanging metal for other materials has taken root. For example, the Kharkov plant of material handling equipment exchanged one hundred tons of rolled metal for spindle oil, oxygen, carbon dioxide and lumber.

Petersburg By phone on January 7 Several American tourists arrived in St. Petersburg from the Far East; they will stay in St. Petersburg for several days and give a series of public lectures on recent Chinese events, illustrating their readings with vague pictures. The Ecumenical Patriarch published an encyclical on the translation of the Gospel, which caused the riots in Athens.

Culture: a collection of the best resources Publication date: February 5, 2002 Paris Opera Official website of both Parisian operas - Palace Garnier and Opera Bastille. Repertoire, various information and the ability to order tickets online. And just a beautiful site. New drama The page of the recently established theater festival, which, they promise, will now become annual.

Petersburg By phone on February 11th They telegraph from Shamakhi: Under the ruins on the 10th day in the morning, they dug up a 6-year-old girl in an unconscious state. She escaped under the logs; in the evening she came to life. Her first word was: “water.” She doesn't remember anything and has a minor head injury. There is more activity on the stock exchange. The rise in industrial stocks caused an increase in prices for banking shares. Relatively quiet with oil values...

Petersburg By phone on February 4th Battle painter F.A. Rubo, currently in St. Petersburg, is busy studying all the data on the defense of Sevastopol available in military archives. In addition, the artist has all the information about the exploits of Russian weapons from the few surviving witnesses of the Sevastopol campaign. All the collected material will serve Roubaud to complete the colossal historical panorama “Defense of Sevastopol”.

Petersburg By phone on December 9th A telegram was received in St. Petersburg from gr. Sofia Andreevna Tolstoy that Lev Nikolaevich fell ill again, just like last year. I've had a high fever for two days now. The cause of the illness has not yet been clarified. Telegraph from Odessa: The ice disaster continues. The broken telephone wires, when they came into contact with electric ones, killed two carriage horses and stunned the coachman. When passing the mayor along Deribasovskaya street.

Sports The travel record was created by a certain Mrs. Crossley from Indianapolis; She has already made a trip around the world 20 times, next week she will undertake the 21st; she crossed the Atlantic Ocean 70 times, climbed to the top of the Egyptian pyramids about 12 times; for 18 years she traveled continuously, visited all the most interesting places on the globe, and met many outstanding personalities of the globe.

THE GIFT OF THE WORD #102 (152) Projective lexicon of the Russian language November 8, 2004 Transformations of "man" (1) “Man” is the main concept of any culture, the center of its semantic cosmos.