Autumn in northern Europe makes St. Petersburg bloom with the most moving appearance in the four seasons of the year. The sky is blue, the clouds and snow are white, and the cool and warm breeze blows every corner of the ancient capital. The ancient castles and palaces and the gorgeous royal gardens, like clean and colorful amber, are embedded in the embrace of the dazzling Neva River and the green delta. In the beauty of this city, I gently pick the gorgeous flowers of Russian urban culture.
The Winter Palace glances at
middle-aged people in their 50s, most of whom have seen a famous movie "Lenin in October" in the Soviet era. As time passed, the theme song "We Are the Red Warriors" in the movie, not many people can recall its majestic tune. The wonderful dialogue between Lenin and Vasily about "the bread will come" has long been forgotten, especially the generational change of the audience, which is the main reason why this black and white film has been suspended for many years. The stories of that era, the stories that are so vivid that make you cry, have not touched the enthusiasm of young people. But I believe that people who have seen it can have amnesia for many scenes in the movie, but there is one building that is hard to forget, and that is the Hermitage. Therefore, when I actually stepped on the old bricks and stones on the streets of St. Petersburg and approached the Winter Palace along the wide Neva River, I was unconsciously checking with the Winter Palace in the movie. Did I blush as a child and see the Hermitage with that beautiful nude statue? The Winter Palace, the symbol of the victory of the October Revolution and its revolutionary companion, the Aurora cruiser moored on the Neva River, unfolded before my eyes like a materialized historical story.
The Winter Palace is located on the south bank of the Neva River, and its inner side is connected to the majestic and open Palace Square. For many years, it has been the largest museum in Russia and ranks among the largest museums in the world. The Winter Palace has a history of 250 years. It began to be built in 1754 in the 18th century. It has successively passed through the painstaking efforts of four generations of outstanding designers and architects. In 1851 of the century, the pattern that we see today was finally formed. In the century and a half after its completion, it has experienced bloody or mysterious dynasty changes again and again, especially after many foreign wars, and later the October Revolution in 1917, three years of civil war and the Great Patriotic War. The test of the flames and smoke. The Winter Palace is a beauty who has experienced hardships. Behind her timeless and gorgeous appearance to the world, she also hides unspeakable pain.
The Winter Palace is huge and magnificent, it is connected by four palaces. The exterior walls of the building complex are all made up of white, blue, and golden colors, which are clean and gorgeous. There are more than 400 exhibition halls in the museum, and it takes 22 kilometers to turn around these gorgeous halls. To see the treasures in the collection is a protracted "eyeball war". Since 1764, Queen Catherine II spent huge sums of money to purchase 225 famous Western European paintings from German merchants as collections, and now it has collected nearly 3 million pieces of various cultural relics. It takes 15 years to watch all the cultural relics in the collection for 1 minute before each treasure, 8 hours a day.
Exciting treasures and fascinating architectural art make the visitors who are flowing every day almost walk into the Winter Palace with a pilgrimage mood. As soon as you enter the main hall of the Winter Palace, the most shocking and eye-catching thing is the steps of the main entrance of Jordan, which was built in 1762 and rebuilt in 1831. On the white marble steps in the shape of a "Zhi", there is a thick red carpet, and the texture is equally fine. The marble balustrades standing along the steps are like a pure white garland hanging in the hall. The corridor will guide you step by step into the hall. When you walk up to the platform at the end of the steps, backed by 12 blue-gray malachite columns 10 meters high, lined up in a row, with a glittering golden ceiling, surrounded by gold-encrusted flower ornaments and statues, you can't help but feel high. , there is a sense of sanctuary, otherworldly purification. Visitors have not stepped into the depths of this treasured world, they have been impressed by the fine art of the building itself. This is a kind of richness, but also a kind of temperament, a kind of majesty. It seems to be lacking in the use of jewels and brilliant golden walls to describe it. In "Lenin in October", the first set of shots after the Captain of the Guard rushed into the Winter Palace was actually shot here. When I was a teenager, I did not forget the impression of the Hermitage through the movies, so I have a number here.
The Hermitage is crowded with people, every hall and every corridor has tourists stopping to watch; every painting and every sculpture attracts many eyeballs. A young Russian university student has been patiently and carefully copying the famous painting "The Virgin and Child" painted by the famous medieval painter Darcivan in 1491. No noise, no noise, no one even talking loudly. The 3 million treasures are not guarded by armed security guards, nor are they dressed in formal clothes, but a group of Russian sister-in-law and mother-in-law, who have their own posts, silent, or sitting or standing watching the influx of people. Out, I don't know, I thought it was a tourist taking a nap.
Two hours have passed, and you can't even talk about watching the flowers, let alone savoring them carefully, but you can't feel the slightest confusion among the tens of thousands of visitors who browse through more than 1,000 exhibition rooms in more than 400 exhibition halls. . Interestingly, when we were about to leave the Winter Palace, we accidentally walked into a house that preserves history. This is a small room in the Winter Palace. History: This is the room where Kerensky, the head of the bourgeois provisional government, handed over power to the Soviets after the October Revolution broke out and attacked the Winter Palace. In this inconspicuous room in the entire palace, there is a table with special meaning. A Russian sign is placed in the center of the table, which records the scene when Kerensky handed over power on this table. .
Everything is history.
The protagonist of that time has long since become a historical figure.
Even the October Revolution and its results, the Soviet Union, have become history.
Only the Winter Palace is still towering on the Neva River, and it has and will continue to receive the admiration of people now and in the future.
Summer Palace
The Summer Palace is the symmetry of the famous Winter Palace, also known as Peter's Palace. It was built by Peter the Great of Russia in 1703. The Summer Palace is well-known in St. Petersburg with its magnificent waterfalls and elegant environment near the sea and the wind. Three centuries of long years have not worn away her grace. When we followed the stream of people from all over the world, we couldn't help but be shocked by her luxurious and graceful charm, the breath of Peter the Great and his royal relatives who dominated Russia. , as if still pervading this magnificent and elegant palace. No matter where the tourists come from, they can't help but express their admiration from their faces and eyes.
Just when people looked around and were full of praise, they suddenly heard the national anthem of our country being played in the direction of the front hall! The passionate melody of "March of the Volunteers" echoed in the Summer Palace. Everyone looked at each other, with question marks on their faces: "Could it be that a leader of our country came to visit today?" "Why does the national anthem start after a while?" We pushed forward with doubts... At this time, our translator, with the Russian version of admiration on his face, explained our confusion. He said that in the past few years, China has pursued reform and opening up, and the development and changes have been too fast. The country is prosperous and the people are prosperous. More and more Chinese people come to Russia to do business, and more people come to travel. A few years ago in Petersburg, it was difficult to see Chinese from the far east, but now it is different. Any place where red lanterns are hung on the streets of Petersburg, no guessing, must be restaurants or shops run by Chinese people, and you can see them everywhere. Chinese tourists traveling together. The Summer Palace is a world-renowned tourist attraction and a must-see for tourists from all over the world. Local folk artists will automatically gather here, and they will play songs from the country where they see the most tourists to collect tips. The reason why your national anthem is repeated over and over again is because there are too many Chinese tourists!
Beauty in place
A philosopher once said in a profound way, "Stand still is great progress". Initial thinking, illogical, how can immobility and progress be the same? Think again, a little moody. The so-called "immobility" means nothing more than maintaining the original ecology and original state of things, so that they will not be damaged by "development". Furthermore, it refers to the increase or decrease of the number. In St. Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia with a three-hundred-year-old city history, in this ancient and young city full of Russian national romance, in those magnificent buildings, exquisite gardens, wide squares and urban sculptures spanning two or three centuries Before, I felt the progress of "staying still" everywhere, and the beauty of "staying still".
Just imagine, a city with a three-hundred-year history of architecture, how many managers and how many city heads it has to go through? How much creativity do they generate during their long or short tenure, greater or lesser power? When the ambition is high and the whim is high, what will happen to the construction and the new? But the people of Petersburg did not do that. They are like "forgetting friends" every other year and generation.
You see, the old bridges on the Neva River seem to be planned with the same design concept and architectural style. Although there are hundreds of bridges and hundreds of faces, there are similarities and differences. The main river is wide and the tributaries are tortuous, and the combination is just right. What is even more amazing is that it is so open and strong from the beginning of the construction, as if the future of the automobile era was foreseen in the era of carriages, and it makes people feel that the designer's vision has a deep sense of penetrating history.
A building can last for more than ten years or even twenty years after being built, and after it is completed, it becomes the body of the city, growing together with the land and the city as if it took root. The beautiful summer palace has been beautiful for more than 200 years, and it still has the same charm and beauty as yesterday. You are excited. The sculptures in the city are not weeping because of the change of court, and they are not tired of changing generations, and they are all lifelike. It is thoughtful and silent; it is happy and smiling. Century after century has passed, and almost all the various urban works are old works from one or two hundred years ago, but they are not covered with the dust of the passing time, but reveal the mind and wisdom of the predecessors. I was deeply moved by the city in front of me, for the history and the present.
Walking in the streets and gardens of St. Petersburg, you are like walking in history, you can see, touch, and smell. But it is clearly immersed in the sunshine of the times, the flowers are blooming, and the autumn leaves are falling. You don't have to worry about getting lost due to urban changes. The old building is really aging. Petersburg people are not eager to demolish it and replace the old with the new, but repair and restore it brick by brick according to the previous appearance. You don't have to worry about impetuous fashion and fashion diluting the heavy humanistic traditions of St. Petersburg, whether Eastern or Western, they are assimilated in the process of Russian history and culture. This city, which does not look fresh, has a sedate and unobtrusive atmosphere that makes you approach her unknowingly and willingly.
In an unknown street park, the bronze statue of the great Russian fable and fairy tale writer Krylov has been erected for hundreds of years. Below the bronze statue are four groups of bronze reliefs. The protagonists in Krylov's fable, frogs, bears, foxes, cranes and woodpeckers, reunite at the feet of the author, allowing you to return to the unity of nature and man in Russian fables , a beautiful era when nature and people are in harmony, isn't this an eternal progress? The old and young, reality and history, vividness and abstraction of St. Petersburg are integrated and unified in large-scale space, infiltrating and reappearing in long-distance time. St. Petersburg is like a giant tree that has been growing for three hundred years. It is indeed ancient, but it is reborn every day. It will continue to grow, with its unchanging appearance.
When the Internet has covered the world and science and technology are changing with each passing day, St. Petersburg, you are still you, tolerant of the old and absorbing the new. In the new sunshine of the 21st century, 300 years of grace and luxury are revealed. You prove a paradox: the older the younger, the older and the younger, the older and the younger...
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