Top 32 Quotes About St Petersburg

#1. The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.

Madonna Ciccone

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#2. Dostoyevsky dies in St Petersburg (28 January). Buried

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#3. Peterhof (Petrodvorets). Nicknamed the "Russian Versailles," the elaborate interiors, formal gardens, and beautiful fountains of Peter the Great's summer palace live up to their moniker. This is St. Petersburg's most famous imperial residence, located in the suburbs about 40 minutes away.

Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.

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#4. In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street. By a long, thin window, a child in a pale blue dress and pale green slippers waited for a bird to marry her.

Catherynne M Valente

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#5. I hadn't watched any of the Olympics, apart from the evening we arrived in St Petersburg. I figured why watch it, I'm doing it.

Mel Cormican

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#6. I've never been to St. Petersburg in my life.

Sergey Galitsky

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#7. Mrs. Mendeleyev hitchhiked with young Dmitri four thousand miles to St. Petersburg - that's equivalent to travelling from London to Equatorial Guinea - and deposited him at the Institute of Pedagogy.

Bill Bryson

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#8. For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society.

Amor Towles

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#9. People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

Gyorgy Ligeti

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#10. A series of interlocking islands and bridges, with wide white-sand beaches on the green Gulf of Mexico and placid marinas on Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg was a place of stucco and sunshine, East Coast attitude and tropical rain, cheap gas and imported food.

Adam Skolnick

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#11. Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Joseph Wechsberg

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#12. Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times.

Gina Greenlee

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#13. It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring ...

Vissarion Belinsky

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#14. I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Anatoly Chubais

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#15. Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

Wilhelm II

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#16. The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

Joseph Wechsberg

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#17. For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

Anna Netrebko

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#18. In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.

Catherynne M Valente

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#19. St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Valentina Matviyenko

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#20. When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

Tadashi Shoji

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#21. The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

Alfred Nobel

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#22. My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy.

Roman Romanenko

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#23. Buildings on the riverbank. He took the last hundred-krone notes and put them in his money belt. He had heard that in St. Petersburg

Jo Nesbo

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#24. I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

Marius Petipa

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#25. Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

Evan Osnos

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#26. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.

Cheech Marin

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#27. A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg.

Mark Twain

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#28. St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.

Bjarke Ingels

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#29. Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

Alexander Alekhine

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#30. Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.

Seymour Stein

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#31. In St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#32. I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

Al Capone

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