St. Petersburg - dreaming at the corner of Pestel Street and Liteiny or Foundry Avenue / на углу Литейного и Пестеля, Санкт-Петербург, Alsaphot Ajax

Roobit1970 has added a photo to the pool:

Corner of Pestel or old name of Saint Panteleon (Panteleimon) street and Liteiny or Foundry Avenue

Camera: Alsaphot Ajax IIIs
(notice the vignetting and the not exactly squarish complexion of the photo)
Film: Rollei RPX 100
Developer - Rodinal or rather Fomadon R09 (same stuff)

the wall to the right belongs to Muruzi (or Morouzi) building, a rental property - luxurious ones (as rich people never owned apartments, the concept was unknown until say - 1970s in parts of the US where land was owned, not a unit on it until the concept of condominium or cooperative was invented. First in Finland, then a Grand Duchy, then spread to Russia proper - where the first housing coop, a luxurious one as well, was launched around 1908 and first building was constructed in 1912). This building - to the right dates from 1874.

It is built on the estate of Baron Nicholas Rezanoff (Nikolai Rezanov, Rezanow), Russia's ambassor to Japan (1804), author of first Russo-Japanese dictionary 1806, explorer author of unfulfilled plans for Russian colonization of North America (pacific coast, Alasaka and Oregon, down to California with a piece of it, were parts of Russia) and participant in Ivan von Krusenstern's first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. He died at Krasnoiarsk (Krasnoyarsk, Krasnojarsk), tragically, in accident - he fell of a horse and hit head against a stone or something like that.

There were so many illustrious personalities who lived in the building to the right that I need to look them all up, and I won't do that. Among Soviet era notables who lived to the right was Joseph Brodsky, a Russian poet (or Jewish origin) and a Noble Prize winner for literature.

I'll get to that building later on - when it will also be a bit lighter than when the picture was taken.




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Угол улицы Пестеля (старой Пантелеймоновской) и дома Мурузи.
Русский текст сочиню потом = но место известное, связанное с разными персонажами от Николая Резанова, послом в Японию, когда Япония была еще закрыта для европейцев, планов русской колонизации Америки (Аляска, Орегон и часть Калифорнии принадлежали России) и участника первого русского кругостветного путешествия - с Иваном Крузенштерном - до - ну там десятки имен. Йосиф Бродский, нобелевский лауреат, был последним более-менее знаменитым обитателем стен направо - дом путинисты почти, что уничтожили, но не решились.

фотоаппарат Alsaphot Ajax IIIs
фотопленка Rollei RPX 100
проявитель Фомадон - Родинал