Fontanka, 34
No matter how much I honor Akhmatov, no matter how much I love Gumilyov, I have a special relationship with the son of these great Russians - Lev Nikolaevich, which has nothing to do with worshiping a glimpse of glory. He not only overcame the force of attraction of the name of his parents, but also accomplished the main thing: he was realized, fulfilled.
This great Eurasian is a whole chapter of Russian historiography. You can accept or not accept his teaching about passionarity and its bearers - he did not claim to be absolute - but one cannot fail to recognize in his unique personality a living, vivid embodiment of "unbowed", unbroken Russia.
I saw him only once.
June 1989 In the courtyard of the famous house on the Fontanka embankment, there is nowhere for an apple to fall: the celebration of the opening of the long-awaited Akhmatova Museum is in full swing. On a light impromptu platform, among the fathers of the city and the literary elite, there is an old man with an Akhmatov profile and the fearless face of a sage.
- Gumilyov? - I ask a friend, the St. Petersburg historian Muratov.
Yes, Gumilyov.
Only about three hours later we managed to get into the museum and, shocked, tired of what we saw and heard, we slowly walked along the embankment. The old man with the eagle eye never left my memory.
– Do you know him?
- A sign. But a captive acquaintance.
“Well, tell me anyway.
I clarified the request: I was not interested in the historian Gumilyov (I have read everything that can be read) - I was interested in Gumilyov-man, although both are inseparable and merged.
Muratov thought for a moment, then lit a cigarette, slowly began:
“I know him from university, but one day business brought me to his house. Ordinary utility. Five or six rings and inaudible old women in the corridor. They received me cordially: they dined and invited me. At the table, besides Lev Nikolaevich and his wife, sat an unshaven, tipsy old man. We were introduced. "Kozyrev," he introduced himself, shaking my hand and alienatingly pushing back his chair. But after the second call "on a little" he became kinder and no longer paid attention to me. And after the third glass, he suddenly asked the owner: “What did you say then?” Lev Nikolaevich was embarrassed and, looking at me, slightly grazing, replied: "But I said that you did the right thing." Kozyrev chuckled, sat for another two minutes, and left.
I didn’t ask questions, but Gumilyov, from the height of his experience, is philosophical about himself and people, and he himself explained the Kozyrev question: “Fate connected me with one rope to Nikolai Kozyrev and his younger brother, whom you had the honor to just meet. Senior
Kozyrev was taken because he was an astronomer not like everyone else, but the youngest - for company, or, more precisely, for a genealogical crime - for kinship. And so we ended up together in the same camp, at the same logging site. In the brigade, as usual, there was a snitch who killed many souls. We decided to remove. The lot was drawn by the younger Kozyrev. That's all. But since then, his soul has been hurting, and at each meeting he asks the same sacramental question.
The Fountain House is one of the most interesting sights of St. Petersburg, almost the same age as the city. The name "Fountain House" dates back to the 18th century. was assigned to the estate of the Counts Sheremetevs, built on a vast plot between the Fontanka River embankment and Liteiny Prospekt. S. I. Chevakinsky became the architect of the main manor house. It is possible that the drawings of F.-B. Rastrelli. The eminent architects of different eras participated in the creation of the interiors of the palace and manor buildings for several centuries: F. S. Argunov, I. D. Starov, A. N. Voronikhin, D. Quarenghi, H. Meyer, D. Quadri, I. D. Corsini, N. L. Benois, A. K. Serebryakov and others. Under the Sheremetevs, the Fountain House was one of the high-society centers of St. Petersburg, a meeting place for outstanding musicians, cultural and scientific figures. The Sheremetev choir chapel, created to accompany worship services in the house church of the Fountain House, was well known not only in Russia, but also in Europe. The palace was practically a museum of the history of the Sheremetev family, which for many centuries played an important role in the Russian state. Since 1990, the Sheremetev Palace has been one of the branches of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Musical Art. Within the walls of the palace, a Music Museum is being created, which is based on. Nowadays, in the halls of the Sheremetev Palace, you can see items from the Sheremetev collections, as well as works of painting and arts and crafts of the 18th-19th centuries, which came to the museum over the last quarter of a century.
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Exposition "Enfilade of ceremonial halls of the palace" (2nd floor):
Thursday-Monday 11.00-19.00 Wednesday 13.00-21.00
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- Exposition of musical instruments "Open Funds" (1st floor):
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children under 7 years old - free of charge, preferential categories of citizens - 70 rubles.
For free:
- visitors under 18 third Thursday of every month
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- For single visitors : - 400 rubles.
- For groups: from 2500 to 5000 rubles. per group, entrance tickets are paid additionally
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Staged photo session in the interiors of the palace (anniversary, wedding) 1 hour - 5000 rubles. registration by tel. 272-44-41 or 272-45-24
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Excursions
Museum of theatrical musical art and project of St. Petersburg "Single card of St. Petersburg citizen" from July 1, 2019 announce a loyalty program for cardholders - discounts for students and pensioners to visit all branches of the museum!
(emb. River Fontanka, 34)
Entrance student ticket - 80 rubles (discount is 20%)
Entrance ticket for a pensioner - 150 rubles (25% discount)
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Russian railways intend to push the consequences of the growing freight traffic onto the Ladozhsky railway station - this will save money and not build an expensive bridge.
Valery Titievskiy/Kommersant
Today, all cargoes towards the ports of the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland pass through St. Petersburg. The number of freight trains is growing, they say in Russian Railways, and, suddenly abandoning plans to build a bypass, they offer to cope with this the only transit station in the city. Even at the cost of reducing passenger traffic. The idea seemed dubious to Smolny: the profile vice-governor Igor Albin is preparing an appeal to the federal government, and the city committee on transport is prescribing terms of reference for pre-project work on the construction of a bypass.
The northeastern railway bypass of St. Petersburg involves the construction of a branch line, presumably from the Pavlovo-on-Neva station to Losevo. From there, freight trains can deliver goods to the ports of the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland. These are, first of all, the Russian Vysotsk, which mainly specializes in transshipment of coal and oil products, and Finnish ports.
Today, cargo traffic goes through St. Petersburg - it captures the stations of Zanevsky Post, Rzhevka and Ruchi and goes north towards Losevo. At one of the last meetings of the interdepartmental working group for the development of the railway junction of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, representatives of Russian Railways announced their desire to increase it. At first, this did not cause any negative: the railway workers proposed a list of promising projects, in which transit to the ports of the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland was painted very diplomatically:
– “Construction of the north-eastern railway bypass of St. Petersburg on the Manushkino-Toksovo section”;
– “A set of measures for the development of the railway infrastructure on the section Pavlovo-on-Neva – Zanevsky Post – Rzhevka – Ruchi – Losevo”;
- "Construction of the second bridge across the Neva on the stretch Pavlovo-on-Neva - Manushkino."
At first, the development of pre-project documentation for the first and third points was discussed, then the railway workers went to Moscow and made it clear that point No. 2 is preferred in the supreme rate of Russian Railways. That is, the reconstruction of the current route, which categorically does not correspond to the plans of Smolny. Because any reconstruction promises an increase in cargo traffic through the city, and the city does not need it at all. The current trend is aimed at bringing industrial and infrastructure facilities outside of it.
The current route of freight trains towards the northern ports of the Gulf of Finland through Rzhevka and Ruchi captures the Ladozhsky railway station. An increase in load means a reduction in passenger traffic, and no one in St. Petersburg can like this. A confidential source in the Oktyabrskaya Railway told Fontanka that the transport committee suggested that his colleagues wait a little while making a final decision: they say, let's make a preliminary project, determine exactly where the northeast bypass can take place, what money will be required for its construction, compare with the estimated costs for the reconstruction of the current infrastructure - and then we'll see.
But the railway workers shake their heads: the most ingenious preliminary project will not allow the new railway line to jump over the Neva - the new bridge will have to be built in any way, because Manushkino, located on the Pavlovo-on-Neva stretch, will not be able to cope with the increase in freight traffic. The reconstruction of the St. Petersburg part of today's route will certainly be cheaper - and, in any case, faster.
The vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Igor Albin, realized that it was time to complain to the Kremlin.
One is better than three
St. Petersburg officials proposed a counter diplomatic move: to replace three points, which now seem to them crafty, with one with a more “global” wording: “Construction of the northeastern railway bypass of St. Petersburg in order to pass transit freight traffic to the seaports of the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland and the state border of the Russian Federation.
In Smolny, they believe that such a call will contribute to the recognition of the optimal route of the northeastern bypass, which will be outside the urban area. As Fontanka was told in the Directorate for the Development of the Transport System of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Alexander Golovin, the head of the transport committee, wrote to Vice Governor Igor Albin about this. The Transport Committee is preparing terms of reference for the relevant pre-project work: the department was offered to contact the Directorate - they say, they can do this work there. Smolny appealed with the wording “due to the funds saved in 2018,” but the head of the Directorate, Kirill Polyakov, predictably retorted: in 2018, he failed to save money.
The Directorate suggested that the Transport Committee prepare a ToR in order to try to raise money for the development of a pre-project in 2019. The New Year is rapidly approaching, so the committee set to work in a rush mode.
The Directorate for the Development of the Transport System was established by the governments of St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region and the Russian Ministry of Transport. Recently, she has been the customer of several small projects (a feasibility study for a tram line in Kudrovo for or a project for 34 million rubles), so no one expects anything more than the development of pre-project documentation. With the most successful development of events along the northeast bypass, it will be ready by the end of 2019 - after which all interested parties will once again be faced with the need to look for money.
And no one will be able to prevent Russian Railways from starting, meanwhile, the reconstruction of the St. Petersburg part of this transit route. Except, perhaps, the government of Russia - it is no coincidence that Igor Albin demanded that the chairmen of the committees on transport and transport and transit policy Alexander Golovin and Sergey Kharlashkin prepare a draft appeal from the governor of St. Petersburg to the government of the Russian Federation "with the application of the necessary information materials" by September 24, 2018.
It is assumed that the desire of railroad workers to earn on increasing cargo flows to the ports of the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland at the expense of St. Petersburg will be curbed by the St. Petersburg prime minister.
