The sun smiled. People - are not present.
The sun smiled. People - are not present.
Petersburg in July seemed made of wax. A heat. Neva
The prospectus it is lazy has sprawled on four kilometres, there here again
Being covered from scorching beams of the sun umbrellas of summer cafes.
Sparkling show-windows expensive (others blink from the sun on
Neva there are no) shops both prestigious hotels and a casino. In doors
There are door-keepers executed to not clear importance and look through
Passers-by.
Parks and green space pant, but townspeople nevertheless
Try to be rescued there from heat. Young fans of CSKA abusively
Discuss the last match, and old men in hats from newspapers are cut in
Chess.
From time to time water carts wash off a hot dust with
Asphalt, nimble townspeople strive to get thus under
Cool streams.
The rivers and channels obviously lose to the sun in struggle of two elements.
Waters of the Sink, Griboedov's channel already do not flow anywhere, on them drowsily
Seagulls, plastic bottles and other dust rock. To a word
To tell, reservoirs in Peter are very dirtied.
To feed the vagabond - business good.
Idlers and visitors of a city hide on snack bars and
To restaurants. They in great variety - pieces on five-six on soul
The population have divorced on a city.
In one us have offered a tiny cup of coffee for 25 roubles.
But on it horrors of the provincial have not ended - coffee was and on
Thirty, and on fifty roubles. "Sprajt" in connection with the weather
Conditions cost 15 roubles.
Nearby on Pea coffee submitted for eight. An another matter,
That, leaving therefrom, it wanted to take a shower immediately. Dirty and
Cups and hands of the barmaid were sticky not only tables, chairs, but
And air in an institution. However old men cosy sipped beer from
Muddy mugs and loudly argued on the politician.
Only the waitress was going to to clean after them the rests
Feasts as a whirlwind the person has rushed a strange kind and became
To sweep away scraps from a table, pulling out them and from hands of the stunned lady.
It was then found out, that they are familiar for a long time - the vagabond comes here
To be fed up. Having warned, that next time it of nothing
The lady majestic will receive for so impolite behaviour,
Has left. Such picture should be observed in many
"Democratic" cafes. In one of them the vagabond has been fed not only
Scraps, but also porridge carefully welded for it. In the answer
Smiles, compliments, questions about health rushed. It me not
Only has touched, but has suggested, that the city should have the
prizrevaemye. Such care is possible to owners of places
Public catering also it is moral improves.
Whether such certificates of mercy at smart restaurants are possible, to
To regret, it is not known.
We have visited pleasant and inexpensive cafe with a native name
"Kareliya", and I has decided, that at us, in Kareliya, serve
More sincerely. And that is why. It was possible to visit many Petersburg
Cafe and shops. At their various level expression of persons
Attendants absolutely identical. It was
Indifferent and sceptical. On pervosti always it would be desirable me
To apologise for that has come into shop something to buy.
The prices were where more pleasantly saleswomen. On the average on two-five
Roubles below ours. razumetsja if speech did not go about any
izyskah.
The most democratic prices in Peter, as well as in any city, on
The markets. But to buy vegetables in trading numbers local residents
Have dissuaded: cunning sellers with unintelligent persons
Establish goods weight under own discretion. Therefore
It is necessary or carry with itself a steelyard, or to go to shop - in
Result leaves cheaper. And I was perplexed, why nobody
Wished to sell to me pair of tomatoes. There was all simply "on them
It is a lot of not obvesish. And still one darling djadechka has sold to me three
Cachectic carrots which weighed about a kind water-melon. Cost too
Approximately it is so much.
Everyone earns, as is able.
Petersburg goodwill and openness came to light seldom and
Shy. Contact there were only old women, the others on
Questions on a route waved away the uncertain: "There go".
And it is not clear, that meant.
In the city exhausted with heat crowd live and hasty. But
People a little, mainly - tsvetnokozhie foreigners smiled.
It was visible, that such pogodka to Negroes in a high.
Similar, Petersburg dandies profess style in this summer
"Become bare, as far as possible". From naked hands, feet, stomachs,
Man's and female, rjabilo in eyes. It would be desirable to see the dressed body.
Suddenly the eye has snatched out that searched from crowd:
Extraordinary kind the muzhik in a coat and krossovkah on bosu
Foot. It was not the city beggar, he asked nothing also all
The kind showed full independence of associates.
Not so proud deprived submissively ask a handout. They ask
At every turn and in different occasions. Banal "submit, people
Kind "now does not make due impression, and asking
The people variously dodge. The old woman standing nearby
Boxes from which ten pairs cat's eyes is melancholy looked,
Begged to help with the maintenance of animals. As it is merciless
Maintain for the purpose of generous alms of dogs and children.
"Bahusnogo" a kind the muzhik sat with a cap, having clasped a head hands.
Its figure expressed extraordinary grief, and passers-by, having entered in
Position, to it coins on opohmelku in large quantities threw.
In general, everyone in this city earns money as is able.
Elderly ladies in transitions sell camomiles. One drunk strenuously
Combed a cat and gave out for the Persian. Artists offered
To execute a portrait a water colour and in a pencil. Certainly, rather
The flatter image of liked for 50-100 roubles to catch
It would be desirable, but to sit motionlessly on such heat unbearable. For
Absence of clientele artists, not descending from a place, drew
The sights opened to an eye. On one cloth
Very abstract monument to the empress appeared well
To Catherine II.
Opposite to the Kazan cathedral - an eternal exhibition-sale of creations
Local masters. Copies of great artists, kinds and landscapes
Petersburg, pictures of animal painters, marine painters, impressionists...
But in everyone the hand of the master was felt.
The still-life with vodka and a herring was especially good. It is written
Before was truthful, that the herring smell was clearly heard.
Growing old hippies traded fenkami own manufacture
From a skin and beads. The orchestra of street musicians strummed the pleasant
Glenn Miller's melodies, and on the guitar case intended for
Gathering of relief aids appeared: "we will not allow to a jazz to die".
The cultural life was in full swing. On opposite sides
The prospectus two ladies heart-rendingly cried out in megaphones. One offered
To make trips on the rivers and channels of Petersburg, and another
Invited in a wax museum where the imperial has been exposed
Family.
The central street of a city - a megaphone of ideas, insults. There state
Petersburgers everything, that has become painful. Nearby gostinogo a court yard sat,
Having buried in the book, the woman whom I have noticed not at once because of
Abundances of posters. One contained set of citations from Solzhenitsyna,
Say, all for all will pay. On other there was an angry reference
To people. Its basic ideas were reduced to two questions: "What?" And
"How long?" Same expressed also the person of the author.
Passers-by with curiosity it read all, but the answer to questions
Anybody could not give.
To all other it is necessary to add, that books in Peter
Expensive, and the well-known "Saigon" will soon close, because in it
The house there will be a hotel.
Tatyana prokopenko (ours spets. A correspondent).
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//* an information Source: Northern courier (Kareliya), 4.08.99
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