Our intention in writing this work was to identify methods that were used in Russian landscaped garden design on the example of St. Petersburg estates and the Bogoroditsky palace and park ensemble ...created by A.T. Bolotov, and to reveal differences between Russian and English landscaped parks. The study suggests that the Russian park was very different from the English one. Whereas the English park would be created as a visual sequence (a system of park pictures) in which different panoramas were constructed from different perspectives, Russian park designers sought to create the space of the park as a pathway between individual scenes. English parks were living pictures, and Russian natural gardens were 3D spaces. As a conclusion, Russian parks had a decentralized composition and were structured as a system of scenes (glades with architectural or natural objects) and «dark alleys» (transit spaces) connecting them, and the immersive environment of the Russian garden implied the depth of the space.
St. Petersburg's Hermitage museum is currently hosting the travelling European art biennial Manifesta -- in spite of the crisis in Ukraine and growing homophobia in Russia. While there were numerous ...calls for Manifesta to boycott Russia, the biennial's organizers chose to go ahead and put their faith in the power of art.
The European art biennial Manifesta is guest at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg - despite the crisis in Ukraine, despite homophobia in Russia. And despite numerous boycott calls Because the ...leadership duo believes in the power of art And lo and behold, it plays a successful trick on the Russian authorities!
Die europäische Kunstbiennale Manifesta gastiert in der Eremitage in St. Petersburg - trotz der Krise in der Ukraine, trotz der Homophobie in Russland. Und trotz zahlreicher Boykottaufrufe. Denn das Führungsduo glaubt an die Kraft der Kunst. Und siehe da, es spielt der russischen Obrigkeit einen gelungenen Streich!
Sixty-nine percent of the 1.5 million Eastern Europeans and Central Asians with HIV live in the Russian Federation. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is effective but cannot help those who leave ...treatment. Focus groups with patients who dropped out of ART for ≥12 months (lost-to-care, LTCs, n = 21) or continued for ≥12 months (engaged-in-care; EICs; n = 24) were conducted in St. Petersburg. Structural barriers included stigma/discrimination and problems with providers and accessing treatment. Individual barriers included employment and caring for dependents, inaccurate beliefs about ART (LTC only), side-effects, substance use (LTCs, present; EICs, past), and depression. Desire to live, social support, and spirituality were facilitators for both; EICs also identified positive thinking and experiences with ART and healthcare/professionals. Interventions to facilitate retention and adherence are discussed.
Currently, more than half of the residents of St. Petersburg are not satisfied with their housing conditions. Plus a constant influx of migrants, which gives additional burden to domestic demand. The ...article analyzes the secondary housing market and the market of apartments in buildings under construction, the dynamics of the activity of demand for apartments. There are the comparison of the prices of residential real estate, depending on the type of apartment, house type, the district where the housing is located. Shown prospects for real estate investing. Highlighted the importance of energy saving technologies and good condition of communications when choosing real estate.
In this edition Arts.21 poses uncomfortable questions: What can and should a European art biennial do in present-day Russia? What do the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean have to do with the ...average European? And, in the third part of our series "When We Were 17...Youth at the Crossroads", we take a trip back in time to the year 1945.
Kultur.21 asks uncomfortable questions: What can and may the Manifesta in St. And what does this die in the Mediterranean have to do with the rich lives of Europeans? Also: A new episode of the ...series\ "with 17... The Century of Youth\. " This time with a time trip to 1945
Kultur.21 stellt unbequeme Fragen: Was kann und darf die Manifesta in St. Petersburg? Und was hat das Sterben im Mittelmeer mit dem satten Leben der Europäer zu tun? Außerdem: Eine neue Folge der Serie "Mit 17... Das Jahrhundert der Jugend". Dieses Mal mit einer Zeitreise in das Jahr 1945.
The paper explores the relationship among factors believed to influence the economic development potential of Russian cities in the post-Soviet period, based on a detailed case study of small and ...medium-sized urban places in Leningrad Oblast. Relying on rarely utilized statistical data (including local town censuses) collected during on-site research and interviews, the author constructs an economic development index that provides a reference for inter-urban comparisons and analysis. The significance of accessibility for post-Soviet urban development is statistically demonstrated and the role of inherited spatial economic structures (economic-geographical endowment) is discussed along with other factors influencing urban performance. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: O11, O18, R11. 3 figures, 4 tables, 30 references.
Rimsky-Korsakov once had the opportunity of earning a visit from a certain young man, a rendezvous that resonated of extreme emissions of ego, quite long into the future. The compositions written by ...the latter were, according to Rimsky, nonsensical. He liberally expressed his opinion, but that did not deter the young man from bursting into his egotistical rhetoric, predicting his eventual ascension and Rimsky's resultant regret for his ‘rash’ comments, words which partially manifested, albeit not serving so much the cause conceived by the young man. This young man was Sergey Diaghilev. This chapter outlines the contentious space between the two individuals, and the dynamics therein. As it is, it concentrates a tad more on Diaghilev's character. Diaghilev was one of what psychologists called “borderline dwellers,” with a strong impulse to write. Despite his future clout in the St. Petersburg cultural scene, he remained an object of ridicule to the Rimsky circle, elements of which guarded their mentor from contact with Diaghilev.