Alexander Kuprin "Headquarters-Captain Rybnikov":

"It was neither light nor dark. It was a warm, white, transparent night with its delicate iridescent colors, with mother-of-pearl water in quiet canals, clearly reflecting the gray stone of the embankment and the motionless greenery of the trees, with a pale sky like tired of insomnia and with sleeping clouds on the sky, long, thin, fluffy, like rags of tousled cotton wool. "

Or here he is in Blondel:

"On the banks of the Neva, we are sitting in a light, swinging float-restaurant and eating crayfish in anticipation of a modest supper. Ten and a half in the evening, but still quite light. Long, languid, sleepless white nights are standing - the glory and torment of St. Petersburg."

Daniil Granin "Unknown person":

"... And then suddenly he stopped hearing what Usankov was saying. A bass-booming voice drifted away, indiscernibly entered the sound of a running engine. It happened when they turned onto the Fontanka, drove into a white night. It turns out that white nights had already come in the city. Between the granite walls of the embankments, a shining strip of water rested, it was lighter than the sky. The water was silver-smooth, motionless, there was light from it. There was no one on the embankments. Teplin. Everything froze, only traffic lights winked silently on the bridges. "

Yu. Slepukhin. "Cimmerian Summer. Southern Cross":

“Time did not extinguish memories. It condensed them, squeezing them into a chain of images, and each such image gradually grew, absorbed everything that was accompanying, became a symbol. Thus, a picture of a white night became a symbol of Leningrad. Not just one definite one, - nights in general, many, merged in his memory into one: a deserted embankment, wide waters behind the low granite of the parapet and a bridge span, lifted by a gigantic wing into an empty, transparent sky, discolored by the near dawn.

(...) And now there are white nights in St. Petersburg. He looked at his watch; it was quarter past eight. Is this the third after midnight? Perhaps some bridges have already been raised. He began to remember at what time Liteiny, Dvortsovy, Kirovsky were bred; the picture stood in his memory clearly, as if he saw it only yesterday: the never-fading dawn over Petropavlovka, wet empty asphalt, wide, the same color as the sky, the pinkish smooth surface of the river ... "

Mamin-Sibiryak "Traits from the life of Pepko":

"Beauty in general is a too conventional thing, but typical beauty is a definite quantity.
twilight and dawns with their silky sky, milky haze and quivering semi-illumination, northern white nights, bloody dawns, when morning converges with evening in June - all this was our dear, from which the Russian soul whines and burns with fire ... "

Dymov F.Ya. "Safe Planet":
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"- Kharkiv asked for permission from the World Council to organize White Nights at home," Stas said, not particularly addressing anyone. Bagir was offended at Kharkiv residents. Okay, be patriots of your city, but do not envy others! long dawn, sorry for Leningrad, which, regardless of the current decision of the Soviet, may someday be deprived of the inimitable Pushkin's White Nights. Or, say, not to take away, but to copy, dilute with repetition. put a miracle on the stream. In the same way, even a holiday should not be imposed on anyone. "

L. Sobolev. "Sea Soul". Stories:

“It was time to go down to dinner, but the senior lieutenant remained on the bridge, peering into the smoky horizon of the Baltic white night. It was making its way under the very horizon, ready to rise again, and a spacious pale glow stood over the sea, covering the entire northern part of the sky. Only in the south was an indistinct purple haze thickening over the coast. The shortest night of the year, the night of June 22nd ...

The sun had already risen over the sea, and all the mysterious indistinctness of the white night had long since disappeared. Sober and clear water ran behind the sides, the blue sky was clear and transparent. The paint glittered on the bridge, and the colored flags of the weather vane fluttered brightly at high speed. The day began, the first day of the war, and in my thoughts, in my whole being, there was the same clarity, sobriety and transparency. "

Alexander Chakovsky. "Blockade":

"They drove past forests and groves, past lonely peasant houses with tightly closed shutters or curtains from the inside, and all this - forests, and groves, and houses, and wells with cranes raised above them - bathed in the ghostly light of a white night, it seemed cut by someone's powerful and powerful hand into a whitish motionless twilight, felt as something material, material, merging both the earth and the sky. reach the enemy. "

E. Bogdanov. "Lodey feedman":

“After a tightly closed, stuffy and dank cabin, in which it smelled of something rotten, foreign, he took a breath of fresh air with pleasure, looked at the sky. over the horizon for a short while, in order to immediately begin to rise again. June white nights on the Dvina are short, like the wingspan of a sandpiper. "

Alexander Shchegolev "A night invented by someone":

"After all, starting in May, evenings are practically canceled, and in June they are also nights. This is called" white nights "- well, when the sunset is at midnight, the sky darkens a little for the sake of decency, and that's all - at five in the morning it rises. I remember that last summer my mother and I saw off a relative from Finland Station, and so, instead of going back on the bus, we flooded on foot. Mom got overwhelmed by something poetic, and she decided to show me "
an unforgettable phenomenon. "Interesting, of course. White night is really a phenomenon. It seems like the wind brings darkness for a couple of hours and carries it away. And what kind of darkness is there! with his eyes: it’s night all around, but the gray sky quickly turns red, reddens, then the clouds begin to glow, and suddenly it’s morning.
how many people are on the streets ... "

Dostoevsky's story White Nights tells about two young people suffering from unrequited love. The main characters of White Nights are the dreamer and Nastenka, who met during the White Nights of St. Petersburg and began to meet in a friendly manner. The dreamer fell in love with a girl, and Nastenka tells him about her love for another person. The dreamer silently loves the girl, dreaming of her love. The work of the writer is written in the genre of sentimentalism and naturalism, in "White Nights" the heroes are social, they belong to a cohort of small people, depending on reasons and circumstances.

Characteristics of the heroes "White Nights"

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This list contains a brief description of the characters and characteristics of the heroes from the novel "White Nights" by FM Dostoevsky, which can be used to write an essay in literature lessons.

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Description To study the phenomenon of white nights; Collect information relevant to the selected topic from various sources; Research, analyze information; Determine the duration of the white nights; Calculate the position of the Sun above the horizon and explore the length of the white nights in Cherepovets for 2010.

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What are White Nights? White nights are nights during which natural light does not get too low, that is, the whole night consists of only twilight. Near the polar circles (from their outer side), this phenomenon is observed near the solstice (in the northern hemisphere - in June, in the southern - in December).

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Where white nights are observed The definition of white nights depends on the definition of twilight. If we accept the definition of civil twilight, then white nights can be observed at latitudes not lower than 60 °, although they are spoken of in somewhat lower latitudes; however, there is no generally accepted definition. In latitudes above the Arctic Circle, white nights are observed for one to three weeks before the onset of the polar day and after its end. Where there is no polar day, white nights are observed near the solstice, during the more nights, the higher the latitude of the area, and the highest illumination of the night is observed on the night of the solstice.

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White Nights in Russia The most famous Russian city where white nights are observed is St. Petersburg. Other cities (listed from the darkest and shortest to the lightest and longest white nights): Cherepovets, Vologda, Berezniki, Magadan, Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Nefteyugansk, Surgut, Syktyvkar, Petrozavodsk, Yakutsk, Ukhta, Arkhangelsk, Severodvinsk you can also observe in those cities where the polar day is observed: Murmansk, Norilsk, Vorkuta - 2-3 weeks before the onset of the polar day and the same after its end.

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White nights outside the territory of Russia Throughout the countries: Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Antarctica. In most of the territory: Sweden, Norway, Canada. In a smaller part of the territory: Estonia (north), Great Britain (Orkney and Shetland Islands in Scotland, as well as South Orkney Islands in Antarctica), USA (almost all of Alaska, with the exception of the southern regions).

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White nights in St. Petersburg White nights in St. Petersburg officially last from June 11 to July 2; the period of very bright nights lasts from May 25-26 to July 16-17. White nights are a kind of symbol of St. Petersburg: various festivals and folk festivals are timed to this time. The image "White Nights" is widely used in art and literature.

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White nights at the poles At the North and South Poles, white nights are observed continuously for about 15-16 days before sunrise and the same number after sunset. In the North it is approximately from March 3 to 18 and from September 26 to October 11, in the South - from March 23 to April 7 and from September 7 to 21.

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White nights in Cherepovets Table of calculations of the position of the Sun above the horizon Cherepovets is the largest city in the Vologda region, the administrative center of the Cherepovets district, one of the few Russian regional cities that surpasses the administrative center of its federal subject (Vologda) both in terms of population and industrial potential. Population - 310 thousand people. (1.10.2009 year). Cherepovets agglomeration (Cherepovets region and the city of Cherepovets) - 360 thousand people Coordinates: 59 ° 08'00 ″ s. NS. 37 ° 55'00 ″ in. etc.

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Conclusion The table shows the calculation of the position of the Sun above the horizon from June 9 to July 4, 2010. The sun sets below the horizon at 22:00 and rises at 04:00. The sun sinks to the maximum below the horizon to -7.77 degrees on June 9 at 00:00 and on July 4 at 01:00, which corresponds to the onset of nautical twilight. The rest of the time corresponds to civil twilight, while the immersion of the Sun under the horizon does not exceed 6-7 degrees. The sun's immersion beyond the horizon even at midnight is not enough, that evening and civil twilight turns into morning without night darkness.

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Why is the night white? As we remember from the lessons of geography and astronomy, the Earth's axis is tilted, so the Sun illuminates our planet in different ways - it turns out that in winter the sun's rays practically do not hit our North, and in summer, on the contrary, the Sun shines almost round the clock. after all, it is with this city that the white nights are associated. This is the merit of our literature - it is thanks to literary traditions that many are ready to consider the White Nights as a tourist attraction exclusively in our northern capital. However, it is not. There are white nights in Kazan, and in Kirov, and in Arkhangelsk, and in Pskov, and in Samara, and in Syktyvkar. The southern border of the zone of white nights runs at a latitude of 49º. From the equator to this parallel, there are never white nights - it is here and only here that the day is always white, and the night is black. At 49º latitude, there is one white night of the year - June 22. North of this latitude, the white nights are getting brighter, longer and brighter. More ...

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Muscovites can also admire the white nights, but in the capital the nights are not as bright as in St. Petersburg. In Syktyvkar, the white nights are even longer and brighter than in St. Petersburg. And in Arkhangelsk the nights are whiter than in Syktyvkar. The closer to the North, the longer the period of white nights lasts: in St. Petersburg during the summer there are 23 white nights, in Petrozavodsk - 52, and in Arkhangelsk - 77 nights. Near Tiksi Bay, in Yakutia, the Sun does not sink under the horizon from May 12 to August 1. Imagine - more than two months around the clock! The period of white nights - this phenomenon has a positive effect on the inner, mental state. I want to love, sing, create, write poetry, live! But this beautiful astronomical phenomenon has the other side of the coin - the country of white nights in winter turns into a country of black days. Where in the summer the sun hides behind the horizon only for a short time, there it hardly appears in the winter. From childhood, a person learns about the "correct" change of day and night on Earth: at night - dark, during the day - light. However, in fact, the change of light and darkness on our planet is more varied than children's ideas about it. Our world is complex and mysterious, but at the same time insanely beautiful!

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Polar day Polar day is a period when the Sun does not set beyond the horizon for more than 1 day. Duration: the shortest polar day is almost 2 days and is observed at the latitude of the Arctic circle - 66 ° 33 ′ minus the radius of the solar disk (15-16 ′) and atmospheric refraction (at sea level on average 35 '), total about 65 ° 43'. The longest is observed at the poles - more than 6 months. At the North Pole it is approximately from March 18 to September 26, at the South Pole - from September 21 to March 23. Interestingly, thanks to refraction for several days, the sun shines simultaneously at both poles. The polar day is a consequence of the inclination of the plane of the Earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic, which is approximately 23 ° 26'.In Russia, residents of the following relatively large cities can observe the polar day: Murmansk, Norilsk, Vorkuta.

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Twilight is the part of the day between night and sunrise and between sunset and night, during which the Sun is already (still) below the horizon and invisible, but signs of sunset (dawn) are still (already) visible, due to the scattering of sunlight in the upper atmosphere Earth. The surface of the Earth at this time is illuminated by diffused light and is not fully illuminated. Due to the fact that at this time the light is extraordinary and romantic, twilight has long been popular among photographers and artists who call this period “regime time.” Formally, twilight is the period of time before sunrise and after sunset, during which natural light is provided by the upper layers of the atmosphere, which, taking direct sunlight, reflects part of them to the surface of the Earth.

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Distinguish between civil, navigational and astronomical twilight. Scientifically, twilight differs depending on the position of the Sun in relation to the horizon. Three subspecies of twilight have been established: civil twilight (the lightest, at the end or before their beginning, the brightest stars are visible), navigational twilight (impossible to read without additional lighting) and astronomical twilight (before or after them - astronomical night: all the stars are visible). For comparison, the angular diameter of the Sun is 0.5 °. Note: If the Sun is 8.5 ° below the horizon, the illumination on Earth is the same as at night with a full moon.

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Civil twilight In civil twilight, the horizon is clearly visible and terrestrial objects are easily distinguishable without the use of artificial light. Civil twilight is the lightest part of twilight, lasting from the moment of the apparent sunset behind the horizon line to the moment the center of the Sun sinks 6 ° below the horizon line. During civil twilight, it is possible to observe the brightest celestial bodies, for example, Venus (Venus can sometimes be seen during the day in the light of the Sun). It is believed that in this part of the twilight in an open place, any work can be performed without artificial lighting. This factor is taken into account in some laws, such as the mandatory inclusion of headlights after sunset, or the consideration of robbery at this time as a night robbery, which is punished more severely in some codes. In such cases, more often than the "degree period", a certain period of time is used (usually 30 minutes before sunrise / after sunset). Civil twilight can also be described as the period during which, under good atmospheric conditions, there is enough light to see terrestrial objects clearly; In the morning at the beginning or in the evening at the end of civil twilight, the horizon line is clearly visible and under good atmospheric conditions the brightest stars are clearly visible. If the civil twilight continues throughout the night, then such a night is called white. In summer, north of the Arctic Circle, the Sun does not set beyond the horizon at all and a polar day is observed.

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Nautical twilight Nautical twilight is a fairly bright part of the day when the center of the Sun is below the horizon from 6 to 12 degrees. It is believed that during this part of twilight, natural light allows the navigator to navigate by coastal objects when the ship is walking near the coast. Navigational twilight continues near the summer solstice. all night at latitudes more than 54 °, that is, including, and in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Omsk, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and other cities at these latitudes. Abroad, partly in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, USA; completely on the territory of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland. In the Southern Hemisphere - in the southern territories of Argentina and Chile. Nevertheless, such lighting is not enough for normal human life (lighting on the street is closer to night than evening in the classical sense), so the streets of settlements need artificial lighting. at dusk in the morning, or at the end of it in the evening, under good atmospheric conditions and in the absence of other light sources, the general outlines of terrestrial objects can be discernible, but complex external operations cannot be done, and the horizon is indistinct. The nautical twilight is also used by the military. The abbreviations BMNT - beginning of morning nautical twilight and EENT - end of evening nautical twilight are used and taken into account when planning military operations. Military units can treat BMNT and EENT with more security. This was adopted in part due to the experience of the French and Indian War, with soldiers in both camps using these times to attack.

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Astronomical twilight This is the name of the time when the Sun is 12 to 18 ° below the horizon. Most casual observers note that the entire sky is already completely dark even at the very beginning of astronomical twilight in the evening or late morning, and astronomers can easily observe celestial bodies such as stars, but weakly scattering objects such as nebulae and galaxies can be well visible before or after astronomical twilight. However, for an ordinary observer, astronomical twilight is indistinguishable from night. From observations it is known that the evening dawn stops when the Sun drops below the horizon by 18 °, while the faintest stars are already visible in the sky, and at the beginning of astronomical twilight in the morning the stars will disappear. However, due to "light pollution" in some areas - mainly in large cities - even 4-th magnitude stars will never be visible, practically regardless of twilight. Therefore, the Sun's distance at the beginning or end is 108 °. In the circumpolar latitudes in summer, dawn occurs all night, during the time when the declination of the Sun is greater (90 ° - φ) - 18 °, where φ means the latitude of the place. The duration t and that declination of the Sun δ, when twilight is the shortest, are calculated by the formulas : sin t / 2 = sin 9 ° x sec φsin δ = -tg 9 ° x sin φ.

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Duration of Twilight The duration of twilight depends on the latitude of the location and the time of year. Note that in circumpolar regions, civil twilight lasts all night from September to March, and the length of twilight before sunrise and after sunset is highly dependent on latitude. In the polar regions, twilight (if any) can last for several hours. At the poles, twilight does not occur during the month before and after the winter solstice. At the poles, twilight can last up to two weeks, while at the equator it can last up to twenty minutes. This is due to the fact that in regions of low geographic latitude, the apparent motion of the Sun is perpendicular to the observer's horizon. In addition, the linear velocity of the earth's rotation is greatest at the equator and decreases with increasing latitude. Thus, the given place on the equator will pass all twilight zones directly and quickly. When approaching the circumpolar regions, the solar disk will be at a smaller angle and sink below the horizon more slowly, and a given point on the Earth will pass through different zones not so directly, for a longer time. In temperate latitudes, twilight is shortest during the equinoxes, lengthening slightly during the winter solstice and much longer in late spring and early summer. Outside the polar circles, in summer, the day is not interrupted for the night and twilight lasts literally for weeks (in polar spring and autumn). On a specific day in early March 2008, the Arctic Circle was at 66 ° 33'42.36. In areas of high latitudes below the Arctic Circle, there are no days without a break for the night, but twilight can last from dusk to dawn. This phenomenon is often referred to as "White Nights". Latitudes, above which at certain times twilight can last all night: astronomical-48 ° 33 ’42”, navigation-54 ° 33 ’42”, civilian-60 ° 33 ’42”. List of major cities where the night can last: civil twilight: Arkhangelsk, Tampere, Umeå, Trondheim, Torshavn, Reykjavik, Nook, Whitehorse and Anchorage; nautical twilight: Petropavlovsk, Moscow, Vitebsk, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Weicherovo, Flensburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Newcastle upon Tyne, Glasgow, Belfast, Grand Prairie, Juneau, Ushuaia and Puerto Williams; astronomical twilight: Astana, Kiev, Minsk, Warsaw, Kosice, Zvetl, Prague, Berlin, Paris, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, London, Cardiff, Dublin, Bellingham (Washington), Rio Gallegos and Punta Arenas. Although, in Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Tallinn and St. Petersburg, in fact, civil twilight does not last all night, even during the solstice. There, during the summer solstice, the sky is noticeably brighter (white nights).

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The movement of the sun along the ecliptic It is believed that a full astronomical night begins only when the sun sinks 18 degrees below the horizon. Before sunrise, twilight replaces each other in the reverse order: astronomical, navigational, civil. In the southern (or rather, in low) latitudes, the Sun descends under the horizon along a steep trajectory during the day and passes all three thresholds of twilight rather quickly. Only an hour and a half pass from sunset to astronomical night, or even less. At high latitudes, the Sun approaches the horizon along a gentle trajectory and sinks slowly under it. Moreover, in summer, even by midnight, it does not have time to overcome the twilight zone and immediately begins to rise. That is, a full-fledged astronomical night does not have time to come. This phenomenon is called the White Nights. 1. At low latitudes, the Sun quickly sinks below the horizon and night falls. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun is highest (both noon and midnight) on the summer solstice on June 21. On this day, at latitudes north of 66.5 °, the sun does not set at all - a polar day is observed here. At latitudes from 60.5 ° to 66.5 °, civil twilight continues throughout the night. At latitudes from 54.5 ° to 60.5 ° - navigational, and up to 48.5 ° there are days when astronomical twilight lasts all night.

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2. Beyond the Arctic Circle, the Sun does not sink below the horizon in summer. 3. At the latitude of St. Petersburg, the sun slowly sinks under the horizon in summer and remains shallow all night - in the twilight zone. So we can say that white nights are typical for most of the territory of Russia. Another thing is where attention is paid to them. St. Petersburg (59.9 ° N) is the northernmost city in the world with a population of over a million. The combination of special lighting conditions with the architecture of the city creates a unique spectacle, thanks to which the White Nights are always closely associated with St. Petersburg.

And, not letting the darkness of the night
To the golden skies
One dawn to change another
In a hurry, giving the night half an hour

A. Pushkin "The Bronze Horseman"

TO When evening dawn converges with morning dawn and twilight lasts all night, the famous white nights come. This phenomenon is observed at latitudes exceeding 60, when the center of the Sun at midnight drops below the horizon by no more than 7. White nights in St. Petersburg continue from June 11 to July 2. However, it should be said that although this amazing natural phenomenon is observed in both hemispheres, as a literary phenomenon, it became a phenomenon only of St. Petersburg culture. White Nights is the hallmark of St. Petersburg. On summer white nights, the wings of St. Petersburg bridges rise and caravans of ships pass along the Neva. And then it seems that the whole city is floating into the unknown. So, as B. Okudzhava said about it.
Houses float like ships from distant lands,
Calm thoughts without breaking
The night is white, - today you are my ocean,
I like your big soul.
N and for three centuries the image of the St. Petersburg White Nights was revealed in different ways in literature. Poets, prose writers, historians, philosophers and publicists wrote about the marvelous Petersburg nights. All of them created their own image - ghostly, alluring, beautiful, sometimes ominous. One of the earliest descriptions of the summer white night we find in Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov (the father of the famous Decembrist) in his article "The Goddess of the Neva" (1794). In the idyll of N.I. Gnedich's "Fishermen" (1821), a holistic description of the St. Petersburg White Night appears. The creator of the Russian explanatory dictionary V.I. Dahl, citing a large number of words with the adjective white, did not introduce the phrase white night. It can be argued that Russian literature is gradually moving towards a new perception of the image of the white night, creating diverse, artistically expressive descriptions. It is no coincidence that the singer of St. Petersburg F. Dostoevsky called one of his sentimental stories, imbued with fantastic light and poetry, "White Nights", N. Gogol, continuing his artistic study of this phenomenon, wrote "... on a white night the city seems to be immersed in" reverie "and" pensiveness "... the great French writer A. Dumas argued that" to love on a white night means to love twice ", and the famous Casanova unexpectedly discovered that" white nights are chastity. "In literature, the image of" white nights "is present as a full-blooded hero as a background, as a scene.
A ntology has not only a private character, but may interest a librarian, ethnographer, teacher, student. The proposed collection of literary texts and bibliographic lists of authors includes a wide range of names of literary men. The reader will find lines B here. Kuchelbecker, A. Pushkin, N. Agnivtsev, A. Blok, O. Mandelstam, A. Akhmatova, N. Zabolotsky - 44 authors in total.
WITH the abandoners did not set out to evaluate or compare the description of the white nights, bringing together different authors. The goal is different, to provide an excellent opportunity not only to "immerse" in the culture of the past, but also to connect it with the values ​​of today.
M The material is grouped in alphabetical order by the names of the authors of the texts and provided with a brief biographical information.
NS This is only a part of the electronic catalog "White Nights" that is being created, which will become a full-fledged component of the library's information resources, supplementing and enriching it with full-text databases.

Nikolay Agnivtsev 1888 - 1932

N Ikolay Agnivtsev - poet, playwright, children's writer, became famous among students and St. Petersburg bohemians due to his musical and lyrical talent. In 1921 he wrote a cycle of poems dedicated to St. Petersburg. Petersburg for Agnivtsev is a fabulous city, "lifted by the word over the Neva". It is inhabited by the shadows of once lived, now living and invented people.

Innokenty Annensky 1855-1909

AND Nnokenty Annensky poet, playwright, critic, translator, consummate master of poetic details. His work, inextricably linked with St. Petersburg, still makes an irresistible impression. The poem "Petersburg" was written by the poet in 1903.

Petersburg

Yellow steam of the Petersburg winter,
Yellow snow sticking to slabs ...
I don't know where you are or where we are,
I only know that we are tightly united.

Did the tsar's decree compose us?
Did the Swedes forget to sink us?
Instead of a fairy tale in the past we have
Only the stones were so terrible.

Only the stones were given to us by the sorcerer,
Yes Neva is brown-yellow,
Yes, deserts of mute squares,
Where people were executed before dawn.

And what did we have on earth
Than our two-headed eagle ascended,
In dark laurels, a giant on a rock, -
Tomorrow will be child's play.

For what he was formidable and daring,
Yes, the rabid horse gave him away,
The king of the snake could not crush,
And our idol became pinned down.

No kremlins, no miracles, no shrines,
No mirages, no tears, no smile ...
Only stones from frozen deserts
Yes, the consciousness of a damned mistake.

Even in May when spilled
White night above the waves of shadow
There is not a spell of a spring dream,
There is a poison of fruitless desires.
1903

As soon as the residents and guests of Russia do not name St. Petersburg - the Northern capital, Venice, Palmyra. From the first day of acquaintance, this amazing city makes visitors fall in love with itself, and its inhabitants are rightfully proud of the fact that they live here. A huge number of architectural and historical monuments, the famous and the drawbridges on it - this is not a complete list of attractions for which Peter is famous.

White Nights is the main event that captivates with its extraordinary beauty not only but also beckons guests to the Northern capital. To tell the truth, such a phenomenon is observed not only in St. Petersburg, for example, in Volgograd, there is one such night, in Arkhangelsk - 77, and not far from the Tiksi Bay it is generally so bright for 2.5 months, but this city was destined charm many poets and writers who have dedicated their best works to him.

Officially, it is believed that in St. Petersburg they read on June 11 and end in early July, but in fact, it already begins to brighten from May 26, and the real night will come into its own somewhere in the middle of summer. Many residents of St. Petersburg note that the brightest is only June 21, that is, in any case, but at the end of May, tourists begin to arrive not only from neighboring countries, but also from far abroad.

White nights in St. Petersburg give an unforgettable experience. When the clock is already deep after midnight, and it is light outside, the soul becomes good and joyful. At such a time, you don't even want to sleep; tourists wander around the city for hours, admiring the architectural monuments. The most important place that attracts all lovers and romantics is the embankment. Many stand the whole night, admiring the Neva and watching the bridges are raised in the evening, and bridges are brought down at dawn. This spectacle is beautiful in itself, but it is the white nights that add special charm to it.

St. Petersburg is also famous for the numerous holidays and festivals taking place here at this time. Guests and residents of the northern capital can take part in the celebration of the Scarlet Sails School Graduates Day, as well as the City Foundation Day. On and you can attend concerts, as well as admire the pyrotechnic multimedia show. Every year about 3 million tourists come to see the White Nights in St. Petersburg. The Scarlet Sails Ball is generally considered a significant event and is always held at a high level, it is also called the hallmark of the city.

St. Petersburg is a unique place with many sights and great events. If you really want to get acquainted with Russian Venice, then it is best to go at the beginning of summer to catch the white nights. In St. Petersburg at this time it is very beautiful and romantic. Although at night it is not as light as during the day, you can still take pictures of your favorite objects without a flash. Nights are a cross between evening twilight and dawn, which fills them with a unique romance and mystery. Anyone who has ever witnessed this amazing phenomenon will fondly remember the time spent in St. Petersburg.