Anton Ivanov, producer from St.-Petersburg, is preparing a series of photographies dedicated to the ar-chitecture of the city. In the following issue of our journal we plan to represent the part of the photocollection concerning motives of destroying of the architecture. At the present time Anton is editing a film based on his observations. The photocollection is in close connection with the idea of the film.
St.-Petersburg was built in a marshy area. In order it could be done Peter the Great introduced a special tax: eve-rybody entering the city had to bring a stone with him. All the city is built of these granite stones. The same principle was used while erecting Scythian burial mounds: every rider had to put a stone on the mound. Compare this with the fuss about so-called “Peoples buildings!»…
…It is interesting why the Pagans did not build a city on this place. It is likely that they had an unconscious feeling that there was a tectonic break under this area. It seems they had a feeling of an abyss under their feet, a feeling perme-ating some verses of Pushkine, Nabokov & other poets who wrote of St.-Peterburg...
Once the so - called “ Route from the Varangians to the Greeks “ passed through this territory. And the granite stones, which had been brought there by the order of Peter I , filled up the abyss in the same way as they filled a pit while erecting a way.
Peter I stopped up a break in the earth crust , in the same way as one plug one’s bath. So, our city is the window onto Europe, on the one hand, and a plug in the bath, on the other hand. It made possible for Europe to expand her influence to the West, being abstracted from the earth essence, from the deep nature. Hence her plastic civilisations.

The article from the journal The Strategy of destruction of the Architecture “
Translator - A.Barkhatova