Saint-Petersburg Model

Agnivtsev Nicholas

St. Petersburg-granite city,
Known by The word over the Neva,
Where the firmament has long spread
Admiralty needle!
As a reality, woven into your fogs
Vision two hundred years of dreams,
Oh, the most ghostly and strange
From all Russian cities!
No wonder Pushkin and Rastrelli,
A flash of lightning in centuries,
So sang the Titanic
You're in granite and poetry.
And may night in white smoke,
And the howling of winter blizzards
You're all the more beautiful, incomparably
Brilliant St. Petersburg!