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Valery Pikulev. Water and Stone. Historical story
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“Surprises”
First acquaintance
It is a little history
“Storm” of The St. Petersburg Fortress
First inhabited house of St.Petersburg
The main square of The Empire
Aleksandrovsky park
The “Tatar Mosque”
Matilda Cshesinscaya’s mansion
Cruiser “Aurora” and Nakhimov Naval School
Artillery Museum
Suvorovskaya square
The Summer Garden
The Marble Palace
The Winter Canal
Atlases
The Palace Square
The Winter Palace
The Admiralty
St. Isaacs’s Cathedral
The Senate Square
“The Bronze Horseman”
The Spit of Vasilyevsky Island
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Real, Last, Future…
In one good song sung by all favourite Russian “musketeer” – such words are Mikhail Boyarsky, —: “Everything will pass …". As they say, you won’t throw out words from a song and whether costs: the song isn’t bad. And, nevertheless, Mikhail Sergeyevich, – at all respect! – will pass not everything: there is a Past, it is always with us! It helps to live in the Present and to trust in the Future. On that it is – the Past!
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Well, tsar Peter, – saying to the modern language, – conceived to construct certain “science and technology park” and with its help to develop wild to Rasey facing Europe, to allow it to look to the west through just cut through window! No new capital and in thoughts existed, – Moscow is enough! Peter created the new city, – native! – and for; built as an amusing toy!
Let’s remember, for example, its children’s entertainments on the Pleshcheevy lake: the amusing fleet, amusing regiments, – Semyonovsky, Preobrazhenskiy (according to names of villages from where peasants), – were taken and in what they turned then?! They became the terrible force and protection of Russia bearing the help to sufferers and horror to enemies on the sails and bayonets! They became beauty and pride of the State Russian!
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