Tag: Small Acts of Kindness

‘I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls’*

Post author By Jennifer Antill
Post date February 9, 2023
Categories In Books, Small Acts of Kindness, St Petersburg
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Recently, ‘Peterskaya Uslada’ (Petersburg Delight) posted pictures on Twitter of the extraordinary marble hall that can be found in the Palace that was owned from 1830 onward by the Kushelev-Bezborodko family (see image above). Although the interior was remodelled in the middle of the 19th century by the son of the first owner, Count Nikolay […]

Dusk approaches…

Post author By Jennifer Antill
Post date December 4, 2022
Categories In a novel, Decembrists, St Petersburg
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We are now moving deeper into December, and it is dark a little after 4 p.m. It was a little earlier, just after 3 p.m. in St Petersburg on December 14th 1825(Old Style) when Nicholas Pavlovich, newly created Emperor of Russia, ordered guns to be fired to scatter 3000 rebel troops. The soldiers had stood […]

Travellers’ Tales

Post author By Jennifer Antill
Post date August 12, 2022
Categories In Russian Roads, Small acts of Kindness, Travel, talks
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Two weeks ago, I was very pleased to be invited to speak at the CamRuSS Russian/Ukrainian summer school held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. I devoted part of my talk to looking at the sources I used when researching my novel, Small Acts of Kindness, A Tale of the First Russian Revolution. Being students of Russian […]