Connaisseur
Istoriko-kulʹturnyĭ alʹmanakh
(
3: 1,2
)
en
translation: Connaisseur - Historical and cultural almanac (3: 1,2)
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The third issue of the historical and cultural almanac Connaisseur is devoted to the period of St. Petersburg’s history when it was known as Leningrad. One of the paradoxes of this era is that despite the political upheavals, its now-Soviet citizens continued to live within the mise-en-scène of days gone by. The historic city stood before their eyes as if nothing had happened – defeated in rhetoric, yet still real and irreplaceable – and they walked around it carrying pain and memories. With ever-growing viciousness, the new authorities tried to cover up the past and cut it off from its inhabitants. The power of memory was therefore necessary to keep Petersburg alive in the middle of Leningrad. These efforts would probably have failed, were it not for the great city itself, which preserved its countenance in almost every way, silently helping those who remained loyal to it. This spirit of fortitude and professionalism is what Here in Leningrad is about - how, in spite of everything, writers, artists, musicians, scientists, and intellectuals of all ages and walks of life remained faithful to their ideals and principles, to their teachers and students, to their work and their gifts.
