The most beautiful city in Russia, and for someone and the world. St. Petersburg, due to its amazing architecture and ambiguous weather, as well as its great cultural past, has become overgrown with quotes, statements and, of course, humor. Petersburg humor, Petersburg love and Petersburg life. Statuses about Peter in this article, as well as the most rainy, romantic and funny. Enjoy it!
Peter or Petersburg?
A city that is impossible to forget, without which it is no longer possible to live. I want to come back here, wander these streets, inhale the smell of old houses, feel the trembling of the grandeur of the monuments. This is a city that has given us all an extraordinary heritage, the city of the emperor, the city of revolution, the hero of war, a cultural revolution, the avant-garde, the city of bandits and intelligentsia.
Petersburg gathered a special culture, ceremonial and curbs, a shawarma, roofs, Nevsky, bridges and Yesenin. Peter is love. New, modern, protesting! In this city - life, through a hopeless veil of rain and all shades of gray, it is a city of contrasts, protests, artists and poets, romantic dates and gang warfare. For young Russian tourists, this is St. Petersburg, for Petersburgers - St. Petersburg, for foreigners - St. Petersburg, and for us who were born in the Soviet era, Leningrad.
Old Petersburg
Over its 300 years, the young city has accumulated such a huge baggage of heritage that can no longer be found in all print media! Peter I left us palaces, impossibly beautiful architecture and unique culture. Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Tsoi - tragic fate impressed their names in the atmosphere of an amazing city.
The revolution and war were a test for the inhabitants of the city, who passed proudly and with dignity! History left its mark on the fate of majestic St. Petersburg.
Old Petersburg is its inhabitants, its history and its smell, unique, special, Petersburg.
If you have never been to St. Petersburg, but have been to London, Paris, Venice, you still have never been to St. Petersburg.
Bella Akhmadulina loved Leningrad very much and devoted many of her creative works to her beloved city. So, in 1978, the poem "Return to Leningrad" was born, from where these lines were taken:
You shouldn’t take your eyes off the city of Petrov, read harmony in all its features and think: it’s granite, but it breathes like nature ...
Petersburg was always loved by poets and writers, one of them was Nikolai Gogol. In 1834, he described his hometown in his work "Nevsky Prospect":
As soon as you go up to Nevsky Prospekt, it already smells of one walk. At least I had some necessary, necessary business, but, having ascended to it, it’s true that you will forget about any business.
Cultural Peter
It is not just that Petersburg is called the cultural capital of Russia. One Hermitage is worth it! Peter is, of course, architectural monuments, this is the Petersburg intelligentsia, this is Dovlatov, this is Weller. A few funny and figurative quotes about cultural Petersburg. Short statuses about Peter:
- Peter is such a cultural city that flying over it, the birds endure.
- Samuel Marshak lived and worked in Leningrad, in addition to translations and children's stories, he also wrote poems, amazing poems about his beloved Leningrad.
It has long been said in verse Neva. Gogol’s page lies Nevsky. The entire Summer Garden is the Onegin chapter. About the Block remember the island. And Dostoevsky wanders around Razezdey.
- Only in St. Petersburg in the announcement of the delivery of an apartment or a room in the features can "smart neighbors" be indicated.
- Pushkin was born in Moscow, and spent his whole life in St. Petersburg, Yesenin was born in Ryazan, lived and died in St. Petersburg. This is how housing prices made Petersburg a cultural capital.
- For half an hour, the Kultura channel interrupted its broadcasting, and immediately bloody chaos spread over evening Petersburg.
Peter and Moscow
The confrontation of two cities, so different and dissimilar, could not but be reflected in modern folklore. By the will of fate, two cities were the capitals of great Russia, and to this day it is believed that we have two capitals. Residents of both cities argue endlessly with each other. We even have football clubs that divide all of Russia into St. Petersburg and Moscow. And what do the townspeople come up with ... A few quotes about Peter and Moscow.
- Sergey Lyubavin in the song "Flower" compared the love of a Muscovite and a Petersburger:
And I am always warm in the rain of St. Petersburg, and you are freezing under the golden Moscow sun.
- In the action movie directed by Yuri Staal "Slove. Right in the Heart", the protagonist says these lines:
- You are not one of those people who considers Petersburg a paradise on earth, but Moscow - a fiery hell with nine circles of the Moscow Ring Road?
- No, a beautiful city, well, anyway ...
In Leningrad, heroes make rock, in Moscow - jesters.
- Russian rock musician Andrei Knyazev once very accurately noticed the peculiarity of two cities.
In St. Petersburg they like to think. Moscow loves to act.
- They’re going to work in Moscow, to live in St. Petersburg.
- They go to Moscow for work, to St. Petersburg for love.
- Diana Arbenina lives and works in St. Petersburg, many of her poems and songs are dedicated to her native city. And, of course, one can’t ignore the comparison of two great cities in which she often has to visit.
For me, Peter is such a strict dandy, a little dandy, so elegant, delicate, ascetic. As for Moscow, this is such a wide merchant, with pies, with pancakes, bagels.
- Moscow is a city designed to work quickly and make decisions quickly, and not to reflect. The peculiarity of St. Petersburg is that we have time to think (L. Lurie).
Statements about St. Petersburg
Probably, it’s time to create a separate book in order to collect at least a small part of all statements about Peter in it. It is impossible not to talk about this city, it is impossible not to think. But someone speaks better, and you can talk endlessly! But we put together some nice short sayings about Peter.
Vera Polozkova is a unique, unusual, young poetess of our time. It was she who caught the essence, calling Petersburg a good dad, in comparison with the imperious Moscow - mom.
Peter is dad, and Moscow is mom! They are divorced, and you live, of course, with your mother, powerful, loud, lean aunt for forty, a careerist, a pretty bitch. And you come to dad for the weekend once a year, and he feeds you cakes with tea.
Only Mikhail Lermontov could so piercingly describe the sky in St. Petersburg. Poets have a subtle soul; they feel differently.
Many residents of St. Petersburg who spent their childhood in a different climate are subject to the strange influence of the local sky. Some kind of sad indifference, similar to the way our northern sun turns away from the ungrateful land here, sneaks into the soul, numb all vital organs. At this moment, the heart is not capable of enthusiasm, the mind is thinking.
While reading the lines of A. Bely about typical St. Petersburg weather, you involuntarily feel the cold, but this does not make the city worse. Rain also has its own romance, and it is in our hearts.
Petersburg Street in the autumn penetrates the whole organism: it freezes the bone marrow and tickles the trembling spine; but as soon as you get into a warm room from it, St. Petersburg street is full of fever.
Detective Elena Kotova's "Third Apple of Newton" was immediately dismantled for quotes. The author very clearly noticed the feelings that a tourist experiences when he first gets into the city of Petra. This powerful energy of architectural buildings, despite the often gray sky, bright fundamental buildings. All this leaves an indelible impression on everyone who first walks along Palace Square. It is perfection that really takes your breath away.
Indeed, the city was unearthly. I did not want to look for words for him, just go and enjoy. When they passed under the arch to the Palace Square, he thought that it was not in vain that he flew here. It was still possible to find analogies to the pillar of Alexandria and the Winter Palace - something echoes either Trafalgar or Vendome Square. But the columns of the Admiralty are there, in the background ... How did the human mind manage to gather so many eyes in one perspective ?! The city is incredibly powerful, massive, austere, and yet unpredictably sensual. His perfection was breathtaking.
Humor about Peter
Well, what about Russia without humor? Peter is famous for his bad weather and excessive education, as well as a great desire to live here for everyone who is just 17. You can’t get around humor. How to wrap yourself in a scarf in the summer way and what rubber boots with heels to wear today? Peter's weather is no longer a drawback, it is a given with which to live, and you want to live fun! Cool statuses about Peter:
- In the dark courtyard of St. Petersburg, hooligans attacked Wasserman and, unexpectedly for themselves, received secondary education.
- How to find an optimist in St. Petersburg? He is cleaning shoes before going outside.
- In general, “50 Shades of Gray” - this should be a film about life in St. Petersburg without drugs, and not just that.
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- Where are you from?
- From Saint-Petersburg.
- It's all from St. Petersburg, more specifically!
- Vologda.
Funny sayings about Peter and his weather on.
Rainy city
Speaking of St. Petersburg, we can not say about the rain, about the weather in general. This is a unique place for all kinds of weather troubles. Even winter is wet here, and the sun is a bit of a natural anomaly. You just need to dress more conveniently, because nature has no bad weather ...
Petersburgers joke about their wet city, tourists in the hope that they’ll be lucky with the weather, but everyone loves Petersburg anyway. Sayings about Peter are short:
- - Boy, do you ever have days without rain in St. Petersburg? - How should I know! I am only 8 years old.
- The Bible says that it rained 40 days and 40 nights, they called it a disaster. In St. Petersburg, this is called summer.
- “It cannot rain all year, a man cannot be poor all his life” - a Chinese proverb. These Chinese have never been to St. Petersburg.
- - Has it been raining in St. Petersburg for a long time? - Since 1703.
- The wind according to the Petersburg custom blew on him from all four sides.
Briefly about Peter
Of course, I would like to rant for a long time, because, speaking of St. Petersburg, it is impossible to stop. But brevity is the sister of talent. We read the statuses about Peter beautiful and short
- Eugene Khankin, known for his aphorisms, very romantic and optimistic:
Black days are best experienced where there are white nights.
- And maybe in Peter, and everything will be formed ... (Zemfira)
- Goncharov in his "Ordinary History" described old Petersburg, all the actions of the novel of which took place in the city on the Neva, where the life of his character Oblomov passed.
Petersburg has long been described, and what is not described, you must see for yourself.
- Inside myself I am in Petersburg.
- Even if you have nothing, you have Petersburg in which you will find everything!
- Petersburg is strong. It is unique (Anatoly Sobchak).
Beautiful about Petersburg
Everything about Peter, everything is beautiful. Beautiful statuses about Peter:
- The group "Accident" in its song "Peter" tried to "express the inexpressible essence" of the best city on earth. One of the lines of the song:
Ay Peter, Peter, you're too handsome to just be a friend!
- "I will stay with you even if they offer Paris. No one has wiped the tears of sadness from the yellow cheeks of these candles on the other side. I’m reminiscent of you, you say, many blood-born children, my man named Peter."
- "I'll leave tomorrow - it's already a ticket. There are columns, like a confectioner's cap. Yes, like that, live 18 years and never see Peter."
Walking along Nevsky Prospect is the same as listening to a symphony.
- The legendary Salvador Dali also did not disregard the amazing city:
In my opinion, the greatest artist of Russia was Peter I, who painted in his imagination a wonderful city and created it on a huge canvas of nature.
- Joseph Brodsky had to leave Leningrad for political reasons, but the city always lived in his heart. Like many poets and writers of the difficult Soviet era, he will remember him until the end of his days:
Explain it as you want, but in St. Petersburg there is this mystery - it really affects your soul, shapes it. The person who grew up there, or at least spent his youth there, it seems to me to be difficult to confuse him with other people.
Modern Peter
"To be a Petersburger does not mean to be born in St. Petersburg, but to be born again in St. Petersburg."
A lot of people come to St. Petersburg daily to stay there forever. Someone succeeds, but someone does not cope with his energy. After all, no matter how beautiful the avenues, cathedrals and streets of the old city are, Petersburg is primarily a metropolis where you must be able to survive.
Modern Petersburg has gathered all the possibilities of a big city. Here you can get a decent education, find a good job, buy an apartment, and besides museums and intricate art exhibitions, find your niche in the rhythm of the second Russian capital. Not everyone is ready for such a rhythm, for such a life.
Of course, it has its own atmosphere and its own "audience", it is motley, somewhere unique, somewhere incomprehensible, it is St. Petersburg. St atuses about Peter:
- Famous quote from the famous 18th century writer and traveler Francesco Algarotti:
Petersburg is the window through which Russia looks to Europe.
- In any incomprehensible situation, go to St. Petersburg.
- A gentle poem by Emma Menshikova touches to the core, the city really has a soul, and it is beautiful.
You know, Peter has a soul, there even stones can listen. I am coming, and it is better for me to live there, and to hide, and to be sad. His water is alive for me, in his buses and trams I leave from my worries to feel the warm light.
- In St. Petersburg, everything is different ...
Finally
Yuri Lotman said:
During this historically insignificant period of its existence, Petersburg has accumulated so many texts, sayings, quotes, associations, such an amount of cultural memory that it can rightfully be considered a unique phenomenon in world civilization.
There is no arguing with that. Such a young city managed to bring together so many historical events, to grow so many geniuses! We became silent witnesses of his triumph and to this day we observe the life and development of our beloved city.
This article has collected a few statuses about Peter, in fact there are infinitely many of them. Poets, writers, writers, public figures, musicians, filmmakers and just people who have visited the city on the Neva at least once have left their thoughts in songs and poems.
You can’t be indifferent to this city, but in general, as Remarque wrote, the best city is the one in which you were happy.