Imperiia: a spatial history of the Russian EmpireMain MenuAboutProjectsDashboardsData CatalogMapStoriesGalleriesGamesWho said history was boring?Teach Our ContentCiting the ProjectKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5The Imperiia Project // Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Young noblewoman of the 17th century, by A. P. Riabushkin (1903)
12020-10-26T11:39:27-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f591The painting is part of the collection of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.plain2020-10-26T11:39:27-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
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12020-10-26T10:44:27-04:00Time, at the moment, is unsettled.7Let me explain.plain2021-01-21T19:30:59-05:002020-10-02T13:21Let me explain.
It is 1914. Someday soon we will find ourselves standing outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, frost forming on our mustachios or driving us to stow our fur-trimmed hands in buffs and wraps.
Our watches will read noon.
But in distant Vladivostok it will already be 6:46 in the evening.
In Kazan, some 1,400 miles away, it will be 1:15 in the afternoon.
In Kishinev, meanwhile, 1,600 miles to the south, the morning will not end for 16 minutes.
