Here in this section i will tell you about things which are
interesting
for me and hopefully will interest you too!
Although i live in Moscow, i count St. Petersburg as my
favorite town!
Not only because my mom lives there and i met my first Love
there..
This city charms and enchants with some internal romanticism
innate only to it.
Many people will say that St Petersburg is a grimy city.
One can agree, but maybe the charm itself is encompassed
exactly in it!
I would like to give to this city the same kiss
...
There is one very unusual book, written by K.K. Rotikov,
"Another Petersburg",
a kind of estetical and literature game, which intrigues a
reader with unusual
associations, turns of plot and discoveries.
This book can be treated as an original tourist guide and as
an singular
addition to the myphology
of St. Petersburg.
Reader can see from unexpected point of view not only
famous, but also
undeservedly forgotten figures of russian history and
culture.
All the book is in fact an anthology of gay Peterburg from
beginning of
XIX century until now. The author collected carefully
little-known facts
of private life of well-known people of culture, art,
politics of that time.
For example, homosexual likes of N. Gogol' are discussed, of
minister of education
S. Uvarov, of head of Synode K. Pobedonoscev,
about passionate relations between S. Esenin and N. Klyuev,
about youth passions of Yu. Lermontov,
about relations of Peter I and A. Men'shikov, and many
others.
Some pages of book are dedicated to description of "hot"
places of
St. Petersburg of that time, bath houses, where gays used to meet, restaurants,
salons...
