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Symbolisms of St.Petersburg vs. Moscow in Peter and Paul fortress
Symbolisms of St.Petersburg vs. Moscow in Peter and Paul fortress.
In order to understand "gini loci" or genie of the place, it is necessary to go back to its origin.
St. Petersburg had a huge influence on Russia during the last 300 years of its existence. In fact St.Petersburg was Russia as far as the rest of the world was concerned for more than two centuries. Just like before that, Moscow was Russia, which was reflected in the name Moscoviya, not for the city but for the whole country. Peter the Great who founded St.Petersburg wanted to have nothing to do with old Muscovite tradition. It could be personal feelings because he witnessed his relatives executed in front of his eyes by rowdy crowd of blood thirsty Muscovites lead by the Kremlin's guard musketeer regiment. But he survived this ordeal, though developing nervous tick, which haunted him for the rest of his life. And later on after becoming the sole tsar of Russia he himself chopped their heads on the Red Square just outside the Kremlin. But this decision to move Russian's capital from Moscow to St.Petersburg wasn't just personal for him, it was more of the business of dragging Russia in the next 18th century, braking away from backward old ways of patriarchal Muscovite Russia to embrace new European traditions of science and technology. And this affair with progress coincidentally started when he was visiting expatriate community, living in closed settlement outside Moscow, because they were not allowed to settle in the city proper. Latter on Peter continued his forays into western civilization heading, incognito, though expecting recognition from his counterparts, his "Great Embassy" to European countries. Russia did not have trained standing diplomats before Peter, so any international business contact should be carried through missions of visiting dignitaries. So he went and there was no turning back for him after that. He secured allies for himself and was determined to give landlocked Russia access to the sea. After initial defeat from Swedish Charles the 12th, who by the way, was the same age and temperament, some might say "craziness" as Peter, he wound up in this distant Baltic shores, where only a few huts of natives stood against wide expanses of water. And this was his second passion, which he caught in Moscow going out in sluggish waters of a small lake on a sail boat, presented by the Queen of England to the brother of one of the Romanovs girls, whom Ivan the Terrible married. Latter on, this boat nicknamed as a grandfather of Russian fleet was delivered to St.Petersburg, rowed down the river Neva by admirals, navigated by Peter himself and saluted by newly built Russian Navy ships to be placed in a special house built for it inside Peter and Paul Fortress. (Markup #1) So you can imagine his excitement when he stood overlooking this body of water. And his timing was perfect, Baltic Sea, usually grey and overcast, wasn't so gloomy and threatening in those spring sunny days of early May of 1703. So Peter made his choice, this was going to be his refuge and safe heaven, which he himself referred to as "paradise" and "window to Europe" to provide connection to the Western World. So even though the Northern War with Sweden for the disputed territories, where St.Petersburg latter was established, was still in progress he decided to move all his family and nobles from Moscow there. And Peter was the type of man who could make his decisions stick, so move they did kicking and screaming, to the marshy uninhabited lands, where nothing grows and you have to pay an arm and leg to get anything done. He and his family occupied almost every dry place, which was available and usually was already built up by some Finish or Swedish settlement. Peter was not known for his polite manners but for his strong will and so no matter how many could die or suffer during the process he kept to his goal, that he stated on many occasions and was no reason not to take him seriously. Everything was means to an end of Europeanization of Russia's establishment. This also implied westernization, or making over on a European model, of the administration, the military, the court, and the elite's culture. Peter wanted for Russia new elite, capable of playing an active role in transforming the society, not obedient and passive subjects of the patriarchal society. That's why he wanted to get rid of this old Byzantine "Moscow as the third Rome" model and start from the clean slate. He wanted to be surrounded by loyal servants of the emperor and of the fatherland whose central concerns were to be the nation's welfare, prosperity and progress. So right after winning the Northern war and concluding Nienshtad's peace treaty with Sweden in 1721 he had himself proclaimed as an emperor and "father of fatherland" in Roman secular fashion and began to build triumphal arches such as the one at the entrance to Peter and Paul fortress and populate his gardens, which were supposed to rival ones in Versailles, with sculptures of mythological creatures along with Greek and Roman Gods. And seeing those naked figures made of marble was so unusual for Russian conservative mind, that Peter had to put a century to the statue of Venus in his summer garden in order to protect her from destruction.
So the reign of Peter bears traits of his personality- his impatience, driving energy and ruthlessness. Indeed the transformations introduced by the tsar-transformer were rushed through, brooking no opposition; any attempt at resistance was pitilessly crushed. Peter rode roughshod over his people, the country, even his family, disregarding difficulties and resistances and quite unmindful of the high price paid by the population. And people engaged in construction of Peter and Paul fortress, which was the original nucleus from which the city grew and even got its name, lived in terrible conditions, inside dugouts covered by tree branches and were literarily worked to death, not even having wheelbarrows to move the earth, but carrying it around in the extensions of their shirts. Some of them were so exhausted that they were ready to drop dead right there in the dirt, rather than go on living. So this little rhyme might sound true-"The giant built this city and though he lacked in stones he put it on the bones." And with his height 6'5 he was a giant, standing head above any crowd, and when he walked people had to run just to keep up with him. No wonder that this larger than life character with furious temper created the impression of relentless hurry and impatience, as if centuries of Western European experience had to be crammed into the twenty-five years of his reign. And it's only natural that not many people were able to keep up with the pace, even though all those ideas about the need of change were developed in Moscow even before Peter's time. His own son prince Alexii had a misfortune of criticizing Peter's reforms, just because he could not live up to his father expectation and do all, that Peter expected from him. It might have been just emotional outburst against relentless pace of reforms, but it cost him his life. Peter the First had him tortured on a rack inside of his newly built fortress and after extracting confession from him about his desire to stop building Navy and go back to old Moscvite ways he was condemned to death. Peter had him buried under the staircase of bell tower, which was erected first and latter became part of the cathedral proper. And by Peter's edict every succeeding emperor of Russia was buried not in Moscow as before, but in this cathedral. So Peter did not want to have anything to do with Moscow either in his life or in his death. And this bell tower complete with chimes had to be higher than the one in Moscow, named after Ivan. We should remember that since the dawn of civilization tower symbolizes power. Egyptian used to built them just foe that and in medieval Italy the height of the tower emphasized the power of city-state. So by putting up this tower Peter was staking his claims for this territory and proclaiming to the world, that Russia has arrived at last.
It was designed as a belfry and it looked like nothing akin to Russian style of orthodox architecture. It was designed by Swiss architect of Italian origin D. Trezini, who was finally recruited in Copenhagen and was strongly influenced by Scandinavian church architecture with tall spires and volutes, emphasizing upward movement.
Presently its height is 122 meters with flying angel on top, which is one of the symbols of St.Petersburg. Bell tower was completed during Peter's time, but not the cathedral, so his body had to wait for several years before it was finished and he could be buried inside of it. But during his life Peter liked to climb on top of the tower, to survey everything that was dear to his heart. Both this tower and the Admiralty yard steeple looked so in sync with each other and with the masts of ships of the first Russian navy fleet, which was his flesh and blood, his "real baby". And who knows, maybe this tower was the stake, nailing to the ground all the opposition to his reforms, however close they might be to him. He was determined "to walk on waters" as did his patron saint Peter. No matter that St.Petersburg literally had no ground to put it here Peter was determined to built it on the sinking marshy soil, just to pull himself out of quagmire of old Moscovite routine But it was just the beginning of those debates between Westernizers and Slavaynophiles about feasibility of Peter's reforms in Russia. For more than two centuries Russia was divided about this issue and each successive ruler was influence to a degree by his choosing sides with those who were for or against it. Even in 20th century Joseph Stalin was one of the strongest proponents of Peter's reforms and it looks that those debates are not over yet in today's Russia.
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