Metro Stop Dostoevsky: Travels in Russian Time
Photograph
Room in Menshikov Palace, Oraniebaum (detail)
Notes
Turbeville’s image (the left half of a panoramic diptych, actually) of a decrepit room in the once grand St. Petersburg palace of Alexander Menshikov is turned on its side, as if ransacked, In Ingrid Bengis’ episodic memoir of living in Russia During the collapse of the Soviet Empire.KB