Word: petrograd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting for their meeting was in itself almost symbolic of the point the Briks had come to in their lives. Their Petrograd apartment was a mixture of fashionable bohemianism and middle-class elegance ... The atmosphere was strained when Elsa and Mayakovsky came in. Unwilling to sit down to make polite small talk, he hulked in the doorway to the dining room as the others settled at the table for tea. Lili leaned over to Elsa and whispered, 'Please, I beg you, tell Mayakovsky not to bore us today. Tell him not to read us any poetry...
...Arpege perfume with a special showing of six dresses designed by Jeanne Lanvin in the 1920s-Jules-Francois Crahay paid homage to Asia with thick, quilted Tibetan coats, Mongolian jackets, and brilliantly colored folkloric ensembles. Even the names of the clothes were redolent of the enigmatic East -Petrograd, Katmandu, Marrakech and Salome...
Lenin is the focus of Act Two. His sealed train puffs out of Zurich and into Petrograd, and we watch, through Krupskaya's eyes, his years in power. Stoppard is chiefly interested in Lenin's views on art--we hear him passionately wonder why the young people only want to see the avant garde experimentalism of Mayadovsky and not good, solid Chekhov. The only art that could move Lenin to tears in his last years, Krupskaya tearfully recounts, was--and the spotlight falls on Carr once again playing it--the Appassionata sonata...
...Society has laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station in Petrograd) and his harsh speech calling upon the soldiers and workers of the revolution to reject the reforms of the revolutionary Provisional Government and seize all power for the people...
...fact, that the Soviets believed the Whites were behind it all, particularly in the early days of the two-week revolt when reliable information was hard to come by, when local newspapers were reporting fallacious rebel bombardments of the mainland and, in one case, a sailors' seizure of Petrograd. But it is precisely this spontaneous characteristic of the revolt, its self-imposed locality, its conformity, in fact, with the Bolshevik catchword 'soviet,' that raises the crucial question: Did the regime act honestly and fairly when it moved against the sailors at Kronstadt...