In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Thursday, April 27, a meeting will be held with the writer and local historian Konstantin Zhukov “Portomoya-Lubovnitsa-Admiralsha-Empress. The Life of Catherine I as a Phenomenon of Baroque Culture. The event will be held as part of the “Kvartirnik” project. The start is at 19:00.
“A woman with a shaved head and a fluttering forelock is sailing along the stormy waves of the sea of u200bu200blife – this is how Fortune was portrayed in the Baroque era. You need to have time to grab her by the long forelock; if you don’t have time, your fingers will slip along the bare back of your head and she will rush away from you, maybe forever. Before Martha, the humble wife of a Swedish dragoon, Fortune swept past in the form of Boris Sheremetev’s army, which took her prisoner. And Martha did not miss her chance. From a prisoner-portomoi, she turned into an empress, and her descendants ruled Russia until 1917, ”explains Zhukov.
What does the inscription on the medallion made by Bartolomeo Rastrelli mean – “The Russian monarch drowned the enemy at Kateringoff”? In honor of whom, when Marta Skavronskaya was baptized into Orthodoxy, was she given the name Ekaterina and patronymic Alekseevna? Why, when visiting France, did Peter I persistently seek a meeting with the Marquise de Maintenon? Why, having laid the imperial crown on the head of his wife, did Peter not give her a scepter in her hand?
Writer and local historian Konstantin Zhukov will offer his own version of the answers to these questions to the participants of the apartment building in the mArs art space.
Konstantin Zhukov is the author of the books “Petersburg Without a Uniform”, “History of the Nevsky Territory”, “History of Moscow in Dates”, “House of Academicians. History and Fate”, many articles in periodicals and a series of radio broadcasts “History of the Nevsky Territory”. In 2012, the writer was awarded the Antsifer Prize Diploma in the nomination “Best Popular Works” for “History of the Nevsky Territory (from ancient times to the end of the 18th century)”. This book presents scientific facts and the results of archaeological research in a popular form.
Tickets for the event can be purchased on TimePad or at the box office before the event.
Source: Rosbalt
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