“We wanted to create a map of Petersburg, which would be presented visualization of the whole city, – said Antonina Puchkovsky, Director of the international centre for digital Humanities research University ITMO. – Because St. Petersburg itself is a huge Museum, populated by historical figures that here once lived (or still live and work). And learn these locations, wandering around the city, extremely interesting.”
the New project is created in close collaboration with the museums, libraries and other cultural institutions of St. Petersburg. Its appearance is basically a map that can be easily Packed into a mobile application and download it to your smartphone.
Convenient interface will help to build a route if you ask in the search task, for example, pass through places associated with the name of Tchaikovsky.
the Card itself will draw you how to find the house where he lived and visited the composer, where he studied, where he gave his first concerts and so on. The map tells the best way and the most important locations, if you specify how much time will this tour be given.
Museums actively supported the new project.
“St. Petersburg- the space that is caused by the imagination of one man, Peter the great, – says the researcher of the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, curator of the Pushkin Digital Gabriel Whitey. And the imagination continues to compete with the physical appearance of the city”.
indeed, many visitors to the St. Petersburg sign as text, as the city of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Brodsky, Dovlatov. And, wandering through its museums and avenues, people are looking for familiar shadows. Russian literature is replete with trajectories of Petersburg movements. So, the project will be routes of Gogol’s heroes Akaky, major Kovalyov, Pushkin’s Hermann, characters Akhmatova’s “Poem without a hero.”
But not only a literary map of St. Petersburg will take its place in the new project.
“For a Museum of this size as our (Hermitage), the project has provided a unique online features, – says researcher of the scientific-methodical Department of the State Museum of the history of religion Paul Tugarinov. – We are there, for example, talk about multi-religious Petersburg at the turn of XIX-XX centuries.
Few people know, for example, that in the construction of the city actively participated Kalmyks, here is a famous temple and a strong Buddhist influence. Temples as the gathering point of the local community played a major role in the twentieth century. For example, Daniil Kharms, who studied at Perichole, in adulthood, became interested in Buddhism: he taught Tibetan and Mongolian languages, visited the temple…”
the project has connected the city’s libraries: for example, his “Krasnodarthe” 42 the most interesting local history objects borderland Krasnogvar��Yeisk district introduced library “Rzhevskaya”. And the library named after Mayakovsky, which regularly performs for colleagues “Day at home”, telling about the life of St. Petersburg mansions, ready to share their stories.
According to the authors, the project is now in alpha version, but specialist users will be able to add new data and addresses.
