You have never been to Leningrad before?" "No, never."…

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense.…

— Sarah Vowell

“Out in the palace gardens, groundskeepers buried statues in the dirt. As Justice and Peace were entombed together, a workman wrote on one flank…

— M T Anderson

Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away…

— Paullina Simons

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

— Glenn Frey

I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests…

— Kehinde Wiley

In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in…

— Anna Akhmatova

In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the…

— Keith Gessen

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible—when Alexander became possible. There he stood as he was—a…

— Paullina Simons

“Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.”

— Robert Edwards

During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then…

— Anna Akhmatova

Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

— Jan Morris

It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own.…

— Sergio Leone

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear,…

— Nina Berberova

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

— Joseph Wechsberg