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Thursday 23 April 2009 |
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Audience reactions to this edition |
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St.Petersburg
When I was a young man I went on a 13 day Baltic cruise which ended up in St Petersburg(then Leningrad).This waspre-Glasnost.I remember me and anothercolleague being shown to a restaurantby a Leningradian and he ordered andpaid for a meal for both of us and left.Certainly an unusually fine type of hospitality! I'll never forget ourtotal surprise.This never occurred tome anywhere else.
jane -
Just wanted to send my usual large thanks. The issues of suffragism in last week's programme and Catherine the Great in this week's.....we're an oddly erratic species. The comments always show just how many different 'ears' we all listen with....I'll lay the odds on some good responses to next week's subject! Best wishes to all.
Ed Dovey / St Petersburg
Really enjoyed the programme. Nice point made about how much the three ruling empresses;- Anna, Elizabeth and Catherine the Great, contributed to the development of St Petersburg, ( and indeed to that of Russia as a great power.Didn't really need the graphic description of how Peter the Great died in Melvyn's Newsletter!
St Petersburg
HelloI visited Amsterdam some years ago. And throughout the stay was in wonderment at the sheer scale of the achievement of building a city around so many canals. Perhaps you could give the 'In Our Time' treatment to the building of Amsterdam. I subsequently did some research of my own but was not satisfied that I got to the bottom of the brutality side of it. Who built the canals - was it conscripts as in the case of St Petersburg, or was it slaves or was it the Dutch population and what machinery did they have at their disposal? Just finished reading 'Brave New World'. Thank you for some very interesting programming. Kind RegardsHarsha Savjani (Ms)
Brian Hughes - St Petersburg
Another fine, entertaining and informative programme (and Renaissance-man's newsletter) this week. I learnt more about Russian and East European history of the period plus some bonus stuff around architecture and power in your 42 minutes than I ever knew before...
(Re)building of St Petersberg
Perhaps a few moments on the (Re)building of St Petersberg (then Leningrad)after the Nazis had destroyed it? Russians say if you want to get the 'feel' of Russia; go to Moscow; St P is 'too European'.
Maurice Price ~ St. Petersburg programme
What a gripping programme. I just loved every minute and have decided to visit. If only my history teacher at school had not made it sound so dull and impersonal I would have made this vow to myself years ago. Thanks for the inspiration.
St Petersburg, Russia
As a young Man I was in Leningrad in the 1960,s. Now it is called St Petersburg. On the internet St Petersburg is a tourist destination, type in Leningrad and its a different story. Which one is correct? mostly todays UK teachers have never heard of Leningrad! history re-written? and wrongly for the thousands of Russians who died in that city during WW2.
Richard S - St Petersburg
Too much to cram in, but I would have liked a mention of Daniel Wheeler, the Quaker who drained the marshes round the city and made them agriculturally productive in the 1820s. Tsar Alexander I had met Quakers when in London and asked them to find an engineer/agriculturalist who was capable and trustworthy. The story is in J O Greenwood 'Vines on the Mountains', Sessions 1977. This also tells of the Quaker James Finlayson who set up the cotton mill that makes Tampere in Finland look like Lancashire.
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