The lights don't go out in this house

The lights don't go out in this house

Categories: Photo project

The key to St. Petersburg is its history, the history of the people who lived in it. The memory of them and their connection with the place is preserved in urban legends and — physically — in memorial plaques on the walls of houses. Reading some of these tablets, you rejoice in the spatial proximity with a person you know, the surnames imprinted on the other part of the tablets are already known only to historians, and over time the ratio of memorable and forgotten surnames, of course, will change in favor of the latter.

Then the memorial plaques will finally reveal their true function — to remind not about the affairs of any particular person, but about the existence of the history of the city in general, by the will of circumstances, once concentrated in selected people. Therefore, there is no difference between famous people and unknown.

The lights don't go out in this house

The lights don't go out in this house

The presented boards document the current era and its circumstances, concentrating it around random characters. Real or fictional — it is impossible to determine from the text, and therefore it also does not matter, in the circumstances of the heroes of the presented boards, you can easily recognize your friends. The classic aura of sacredness is thus removed from the history and memory itself — the history of the city ceases to be the history of heroes, but does not lose its value from this.

Joint project of Gandhi and the group of Long Waves (Anna Nazarova)

Bakunin Ave., 15-17 (from Perekupny Lane)

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2. Bakunin Ave., 15-17 (from Perekupny Lane)

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3. 9th Soviet , 22

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4. Lomonosova, 18-20, yard

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5. Lomonosova, 18-20, yard

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6. Rubinstein, 21 (no longer exists)

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7. Kolomenskaya, 9

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8. Kolomenskaya, 9

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9. Pushkinskaya, 7

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10. Pisareva, 5

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11. 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya, 19

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12.

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13. Gorokhovaya, 50

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14. Apraksin lane, 9

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15. Apraksin lane, 9

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16. Flour lane, 3

Keywords: Plaque | Monuments | St. petersburg

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