place
Saint Petersburg
Petersburg
also: Sankt Petersburg
The Russian imperial capital on the Neva; in Rilke's night-drive its granite splendor 'ceases to be,' admitting 'that it never was.'
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §53 SANKT PETERSBURG
Saint Petersburg, through which the night carriage flies until the granite city 'ceases to be' and admits it never was.
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §335 My two Petersburg neighbours
St Petersburg; Malte sets the two sleepless neighbours---the violinist and the reciter---in its 'improbable,' never-darkening August nights.