On this site, you can learn about St. Petersburg through the eyes of Russia's most important literary figures by using our comprehensive collection of language learning activities. You can learn Russian in the context of literature and St. Petersburg. The Literary Petersburg Project is a part of Russnet's Regional Russia Web Site, created and maintained by the American Council of Teachers of Russian, supporting by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Choose from the following authors: Anna Akhmatova Journey back to the Stalinist repressions and the seige of Leningrad. Discover how courage helped an entire city, and one woman, survive. Iosef Brodsky Discover a city mired in ideological battles, repressions, and the Cold War. Fedor Dostoevsky Walk through the dark side of St. Petersburg through the eyes of its own genius. Learn how Dostoevsky's work heightened the myth of St. Petersburg. Nikolai Gogol Examine St. Petersburg through the comical and absurd eyes of Gogol. Alexander Pushkin Begin at the beginning with St. Petersburg's native son, the writer who put St. Petersburg on the map as a center of cultural activity.