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city
Category: scale
a settlement of large size and density centered around specific economic and social activity
Place Based Concepts Having this Component
PBC0308: mockery of province
place -- uncanny home -- city -- pro-revolution -- satire of Russian backwardness -- bad present
Works Using This PBC
Kollontai, Skoro (Cherez 48 let)
Tret'iakov, 8. Viatka (Putevka: Chita-Moskva, 1921)
Tret'iakov, 9. Sibgorod (Putevka: Chita-Moskva, 1921)
Multivalent Markers
Вятка (Viatka)
Россия (Russia)
город (city)
провинция (province)
PBC0080: political alienation
place -- uncanny home -- city -- nationalist -- disillusionment -- bad present
Works Using This PBC
Akhmatova, Bezhetsk
Akhmatova, Kogda v toske samoubiistva…
Akhmatova, Teper' proshchai stolitsa…
Akhmatova, Tot avgust, kak zheltoe plamia
Gumilëv, Muzhik
Multivalent Markers
Бежецк (Bezhetsk)
Петроград (Petrograd)
Рига (Riga)
столица (capital)
PBC0041: faith in worker-soldiers
liminal space -- front -- city -- Bolshevik -- faith in workers' and soldiers' agency
Works Using This PBC
Bednyi, Muzhiki (Excerpts)
Bednyi, Obmanutym brat'iam v belogvardeiskie okopy
Multivalent Markers
Петроград (Petrograd)
PBC0075: alienation and grief
place -- uncanny home -- city -- independent -- grief about death of a city
Works Using This PBC
Akhmatova, Drugoi golos
Akhmatova, I tselyi den', svoikh pugaias' stonov…
Mandel'shtam, Na strashnoi vysote bluzhdaiushchii ogon'…
Mandel'shtam, Petropol'
Mandel'shtam, V Peterburge my soidemsia snova…
Multivalent Markers
Нева (Neva River)
Петроград (Petrograd)
река (river)
PBC0077: humor in history
place -- uncanny home -- city -- independent -- humor -- deep past
Works Using This PBC
Mandel'shtam, Na rozval'niakh, ulozhennykh solomoi…
Mandel'shtam, V raznogolositse devicheskogo khora…
Multivalent Markers
Москва (Moscow)
Рим (Rome)
Углич (Uglich)
Флоренция (Florence)
PBC0094: hope for future
place -- not home -- city -- nationalist -- hope
Works Using This PBC
Bronitskaia, Iz Nitstsy: pered voinoi
Multivalent Markers
юг (south)
PBC0095: anxiety about future
place -- uncanny home -- city -- nationalist -- anxiety about political instability -- bad present
Works Using This PBC
Akhmatova, Eto prosto, eto iasno…
Akhmatova, Petrograd, 1919
Akhmatova, Ty - otstupnik: za ostrov zelenyi…
Tsvetaeva, Moskva! - Kakoi ogromnyi strannopriimnyi dom…
Multivalent Markers
Петроград (Petrograd)
столица (capital)
PBC0099: humor despite tragedy
place -- not home -- city -- independent -- humor despite tragedy
Works Using This PBC
Bogorodskii, Troe
Mandel'shtam, Vernis' v smesitel'noe lono…
Mandel'shtam, Zverinets
Severianin, Poeza o Bel'gii
Severianin, Uvertiura k t. 3
Multivalent Markers
Брюссель (Brussels)
Венеция (Venice)
Италия (Italy)
Кипр (Cyprus)
Манхэттэн, Нью-Йорк (Manhattan, New York)
Нагасаки (Nagasaki)
Рим (Rome)
домой (homeward)
PBC0101: alienation
place -- uncanny home -- city -- pro-revolution -- alienation
Works Using This PBC
Artamonov, Opustilas' nad zemleiu belorozovaia t'ma…
Dudorov, Iz polei
Dudorov, Po ukhabistym dorogam
Gor'kii, V liudiakh
Multivalent Markers
Волга (Volga River)
Тверь (Tver’)
город (city)
деревня (village)
домой (homeward)
земля (land; Earth)
сторона (country; "parts"; neck of the woods)
PBC0263: nostalgia for homeland
place -- home -- city -- nationalist -- nostalgia -- alternative present
Works Using This PBC
Akhmatova, Eto prosto, eto iasno…
Akhmatova, Lotova zhena
Eshchin, God v pokhode (Dvadtsatyi god)
Eshchin, Konets zasnezhennykh polei…
Mandel'shtam, Tristia
Nesmelov, Malen'kii lenivyi gorodok…
Multivalent Markers
Ладожское озеро (Lake Ladoga)
Содом (Sodom)
Тихвин (Tikhvin)
город (city)
дом (house; home)
река (river)
столица (capital)
сторона (country; "parts"; neck of the woods)
PBC0265: reverence for Rus
place -- home -- city -- nationalist -- reverence
Works Using This PBC
Tsvetaeva, Iz ruk moikh - nerukotvornyi grad…
Tsvetaeva, Nad gorodom, otvergnutym Petrom…
Tsvetaeva, Oblaka - vokrug, kupola - vokrug…
Tsvetaeva, Sem' kholmov - kak sem' kolokolov…
Multivalent Markers
Москва (Moscow)
PBC0266: grief at death of a place
place -- home -- city -- nationalist -- grief about death of a city
Works Using This PBC
Tsvetaeva, Moskve
Tsvetaeva, Nad tserkovkoi - golubye oblaka…
Multivalent Markers
Москва (Moscow)
PBC0267: dread of violence
place -- home -- city -- nationalist -- dread of violence
Works Using This PBC
Gumilëv, Muzhik
Tsvetaeva, Chut' svetaet…
Tsvetaeva, Ex-Ci-devant
Tsvetaeva, Golubye, kak nebo, vody…
Tsvetaeva, Mimo nochnykh bashen…
Multivalent Markers
Арбат (Arbat)
Красная Площадь (Red Square)
Москва (Moscow)
Москва-река (Moscow River)
болото (swamp)
PBC0268
place -- home -- city -- nationalist -- grief at losing Moscow
PBC0269: hope for victory
place -- home -- city -- nationalist -- hope for victory
Works Using This PBC
Balashov, Raspiata Rus'!
Balashov, Tesnei kol'tso!
Tsvetaeva, Belizna - ugroza Chernote…
Multivalent Markers
Москва (Moscow)
Русь (Rus)
PBC0272
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- satire of Russian backwardness
PBC0273: mockery of tsarism
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- satire of anti-Semitism
Works Using This PBC
Bednyi, Durman (excerpts)
Gor'kii, Segodnia "Proshchenoe Voskresen'e"
Multivalent Markers
Москва (Moscow)
Россия (Russia)
PBC0274: affection for a city
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- love for a city
Works Using This PBC
Aleksandrovskii, Moskva
Bednyi, Muzhiki (Excerpts)
Bednyi, Obmanutym brat'iam v belogvardeiskie okopy
Multivalent Markers
Кудрино (Kudrino)
Москва (Moscow)
Пресня (Presnia)
PBC0275: reverence for a city
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- reverence for capital
Works Using This PBC
Aleksandrovskii, Moskva
Kirillov, Krasnyi Kreml'
Sokol, Revoliutsiia
Multivalent Markers
Москва (Moscow)
PBC0276: hope for change
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- hope for beneficial change
Works Using This PBC
Bezymenskii, Iunyi proletarii (Zhizn' Miti)
Bogorodskii, Mednaia sila
Gerasimov, Zheleznye tsvety
Multivalent Markers
завод (factory)
путь (way, path)
фабрикa (factory)
PBC0277: mockery of religion
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- irreverence toward old belief systems
Works Using This PBC
Gerasimov, Zavod vonzil dva roga…
Maiakovskii, Ia i Napoleon
Malashkin, Demokratii
Multivalent Markers
Москва (Moscow)
завод (factory)
фабрикa (factory)
PBC0278: empowerment
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- empowerment
Works Using This PBC
Aleksandrovskii, Moskva
Bednyi, Raskazanskoe polozhenie
Bezymenskii, Ia
Bogorodskii, Mednaia sila
Gerasimov, Zarevo zavodov
Gerasimov, Zheleznye tsvety
Oreshin, Dva maia
Multivalent Markers
завод (factory)
мир (world)
фабрикa (factory)
PBC0279: hope for solidarity
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- solidarity among workers and peasants
Works Using This PBC
Maiakovskii, Svolochi!
Stradnyi, Derevnia
Multivalent Markers
город (city)
PBC0280: joy at coming order
place -- home -- city -- Bolshevik -- jubilation at bright future
Works Using This PBC
Bezymenskii, Iunyi proletarii (Zhizn' Miti)
Bezymenskii, Tipografiia zhizni
Erkin, Rossiia
Mukhareva, Ei! Kuznets, ne padai dukhom!
Oreshin, Dva maia
Multivalent Markers
РСФСР (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
город (city)
дом (house; home)
завод (factory)
фабрикa (factory)
PBC0281: sadness at destruction
place -- home -- city -- pro-revolution -- grief at destruction
Works Using This PBC
Artamonov, Gorod gorit… A v ogne liudi…
Artamonov, Opustilas' nad zemleiu belorozovaia t'ma…
Artamonov, Snova idu ia k bagrianomu svetu…
Artamonov, Svistia i shipia, rvutsia granaty…
Artamonov, V gorod idu ia tikhoi tropoiu…
Artamonov, V ogne pozharov 1
Artamonov, Vot i gorod, goriashchii ogniami…
Artamonov, Vot uzhe plamia pakhnulo v litso mne…
Multivalent Markers
город (city)
дом (house; home)
земля (land; Earth)
PBC0282
place -- home -- city -- independent -- grief about death of a city
PBC0283
place -- home -- city -- pro-revolution -- alienation from rural home
PBC0299: rejection of colonialism
place -- home -- city -- regionalist -- pride in multiculturalism
Works Using This PBC
Chirikov, Sviataia gora
Multivalent Markers
Чебоксары (Cheboksary)
PBC0264: love of homeland
place -- home -- city -- nationalist -- love for a city
Works Using This PBC
Akhmatova, Petrograd, 1919
Akhmatova, Smerkaetsia, i v nebe temno-sinem…
Balashov, Moskve
Tsvetaeva, Iz ruk moikh - nerukotvornyi grad…
Tsvetaeva, Moskva! - Kakoi ogromnyi strannopriimnyi dom…
Tsvetaeva, Nastanet den' - pechal'nyi, govoriat…
Multivalent Markers
Красная Площадь (Red Square)
Москва (Moscow)
Петроград (Petrograd)
дом (house; home)