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Myths of St. Petersburg. From sphinxes and the curse of the Obvodny Canal to floods and the bloody goddess Sekhmet

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Myths of St. Petersburg. From sphinxes and the curse of the Obvodny Canal to floods and the bloody goddess Sekhmet
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Why is St. Petersburg called a city "created from nothing"—and how did this idea become an urban myth? Is it true that the spit of Vasilievsky Island conceals Masonic symbolism from Solomon's Temple? And why have the sphinxes on the University Embankment become one of the city's main mysteries and emblems?

This book is the key to the city's multilayered mythology, from the "great myth" of Peter the Great as a demiurge and a city-paradise to the dark legends of floods and the "end of St. Petersburg," in which the elements return the world to primordial chaos. You will learn how St. Petersburg "absorbed" foreign mythological languages and made them its own, why the flood of 1824 became a central plot point of St. Petersburg eschatology, and how literature and cinema continually revive these stories, transforming the city into a space of signs, allusions, and legends that are immediately apparent.
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