March is going to be the Saint Petersburg Month here at Home & Away. While I am sorting through some 600 photographs from my 5-day trip, here’s something by the way of an introduction: Saint Petersburg as depicted by Russian artists in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Founding of Saint Petersburg by Alexey Venetsianov, 1838.
Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1847.
Riding on Neva River by Alexey Bogolyubov, 1854.
Maslenitsa Festivities in Admiralty Square by Konstantin Makovsky 1869.
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The Bronze Horseman by Vasily Surikov, 1870.
The Storming of the Winter Palace by Vladimir Serov, 1943
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Oh – I have always loved that Aivazovsky piece.
There were several majestic ones by him at the Russian Museum!
I love the wintry Neva River and the Bronze Horseman (I remember the poem from my student days, vaguely at least). Looking forward to this month as I still haven’t made it to St Petersburg myself.
I cant believe how solidly the river must have been frozen! This year there was water everywhere. No more frosts of yore.
St Petersburg Month!!!
Otherwise known as ‘photo dump & no need to come up with original material’ month 😛
You’re copying my trademarked strategy 😉
Didn’t see no trademark….
That’s OK. I’ll invoice you at the end of the blogging year for royalties. Alternatively, you can just keep clicking “like” on all the crappy pics I post. Ta!
Don’t I already, love? 🙂
Yes, yes you do. And I’ll love you FOREVER for it 😉
Snowy winter Neva gets my vote! I thought the festivities were an uprising 🙂 Looking forward to hearing all about your adventures!
In Russia there’s only one short step from festivities to uprisings – or vice versa!
beautiful! can’t wait to here about your trip!
As soon as I get a break from my 8 am-1 am job!
Yikes!
So excited to see what you got up to! Try not to work too hard!
Le Sigh. Feel free to Google RT today. I will live and die in this office by Friday lol.
Yeah, I figured as much, with all this fun stuff going on!
Breathtaking.
thank you 🙂 cant wait to show more ‘real life’ saint pete’s over the weekend!
I love old art Anna and these paintings are beautiful. I especially like the “Admiralty Square”by Konstantin Makovsky because I really like paintings that show social history and “The Bronze Horseman” by Vasily Surikov because the horseman looked dangerous and mysterious!
The horseman is a lot less menacing in person. Sadly 😦