Our story begins at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg,Russia on December eighteenth,eighteen ninety-two.

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Of course, it gets dark in the winter in St. Petersburg about noon.

不过,冬天的圣彼得堡中午之后就天黑了

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When he is gone from Moscow and then St. Petersburg, there was always this tendency to have these sort of cabales to get together and sort of plot.

当他离开莫斯科和圣彼得堡外出时,就会有人秘密集会,结党营私,秘谋造反

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He lived in the summers on a country estate outside St. Petersburg, in a beautiful chateau. And his uncle owned the chateau down the road, and actually left it to him when he was a very young man.

夏天的时候他住在圣彼得堡外漂亮的乡村城堡，那是他叔叔的城堡，并在Naboko很小的时候就把它送给了他。

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We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

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St. Petersburg is completely different.

而圣彼得堡却是另一番光景

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What's important about the construction of St. Petersburg-- I don't know how many of you have ever been there; I haven't been there for a very, very long time-- this city is not like Moscow at all.

那么修建圣彼得堡到底有什么重要的意义呢,我不知道你们之中有多少人去过那儿,我并没有在那个地方逗留过很久,但这座城市和莫斯科完全不一样

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Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

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This also, by the way, gets him interested in Baroque and these kinds of Baroque masquerades that he had back in Moscow and then in St. Petersburg as well.

这也同时,使他对巴洛克艺术有兴趣,他在莫斯科有许多巴洛克风格的面具,后来在圣彼得堡也有

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That's where St. Petersburg comes from.

这就是圣彼得堡的来历

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