Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad Comments
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Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad
Winter Isaac, Peter-Paul Fortress,
And Aurora, and Smolny, Neva,
And the wind that blows from the Baltic!
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12/18/2025 9:27:21 AM # 1.0.0
Petersburg is one of the world's great cities, and no matter what it is called by present governments it will always be Petersburg. I've walked its streets by means of Dostoyevsky's writing, and more recently Andrei Bely's PETERSBURG (which I haven't finished yet - it's very dense and mercurial - I'm only on page 177!) The title of your poem is a capsule history of the city. And I can feel the love/hate which is so commonplace with regard to a city with such a vast history.