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There are many tests and determinants for belonging to the indigenous population of St. Petersburg. As you know, a St. Petersburg resident is a special creature and there are features that distinguish him from the general population of the country. Everyone knows that in St. Petersburg everything is always wrong. There is a different time, space, elections, sunlight and citizens.

I offer the text based on my observations and life experience By this issue. I think that readers will understand me correctly and will take these notes not very seriously, not fatally, and even with a bit of humor. Otherwise, it is better not to read the text at all. There will be nothing here about “curbs” and “front door”. Zadornov will tell you about this.

A native hereditary resident of St. Petersburg is such a special breed of people, different not only from the average Russian, but also from a local resident of recent bottling. Among the native St. Petersburgers, there are indeed many people from historical or aristocratic families; their habits are hereditary, developed over years and generations, ingrained in genetics and unchangeable. Therefore, they are relatively easy to distinguish from non-indigenous residents. This may be useful to know for those coming to the city for proper orientation. It must be said that, in terms of habits, the Russian-speaking population of the Baltic states has always been close to the residents of St. Petersburg, primarily because it was made up of deported naval families (locally called occupiers), whose origins often led to that same St. Petersburg .

What are these differences? Native resident of St. Petersburg:

1) hates and never uses the word “Peter” and the people of St. Petersburg. He will publicly shame the person who says that. We must say “St. Petersburg” and even “Leningraders” are better than “Petersburgers”, since this is the word of the proletarian outskirts; the indigenous proletarian outskirts use it willingly. For example, Kupchino with its subculture, which, as everyone knows, is considered by locals to be the capital of the world

2) St. Petersburg is an empire with its center in the Hermitage. According to an apt expression, the population of St. Petersburg is divided into those who work in the Hermitage and those who do not know where the exit is. The last statement applies, as you understand, to those who are not native to St. Petersburg;

A native Petersburger, even if he doesn’t work for this moment in the Hermitage, he dreams of working, or he lives nearby, or his grandmother worked, or his grandfather was an officer guard at the palace, or he was taken to school and university every week, etc. In short, a native resident cannot be unconnected with the Hermitage.

Sunday in St. Petersburg. Collecting a puzzle on Palace Square

3) a native resident loves not only the Hermitage separately, but also his city as a whole, Peter I, smelt and the local tram. White nights are treated without special reverence, as an inevitable disaster, when visitors, stunned by this phenomenon, with their enthusiastic cries do not allow native Petersburgers to sleep at night;

Spring on the city streets

4) it’s easy to spot a St. Petersburg resident on the street by their tatty, threadbare clothes (they quickly get worn out in the crush of public transport). The shoes of a St. Petersburg resident always look better than clothes. He will polish his shoes (even if they are old) constantly and daily on autopilot. And also sneakers, sneakers and smoothing creases on old torn jeans. At the same time, he hates the so-called “dead dude” and despises those obsessed with clothes. Second-hand clothing, popular in the 90s, was not considered bad manners, this is in the recent past local species“sport hunting” is often for the sake of the process. As was said in another author’s study on this topic: “The second-hand store is thriving, and not because of the poverty or stinginess of St. Petersburg residents, but because in this way the powerful enemy is again put to shame, trying to incite the city dweller into dead foppishness, that is, for consumption.” Valentina Matvienko, who liquidated the second-hand store, dealt a sensitive blow to the mentality of the local population, thereby demonstrating her “common” nature, and the fact that she never managed to become a native in this city;

The public on the street (in a theater, boutique, market, etc.) wearing furs, silks, velvet, jewelry, rings, rhinestones and high heels- these are all visiting people on the road in St. Petersburg, identified by these signs unmistakably. Just like the dressed up governor who changed her outfit every day was perceived as a stranger in the city (of course!). It’s surprising that no one suggested this to her at the time. Most likely, because her closest advisers and image makers were also not natives and did not know about this fundamental feature of a native St. Petersburger (Leningrader). The current governor is not fixated on spectacular clothes, and in general he has given up on everything, it seems that he has taken care of the city and its citizens. One, familiar to many generations of governors of St. Petersburg Ukrainian surname it scratches a little, but in general the city today seems to live on its own, on autopilot

5) also, the restaurants in St. Petersburg are mainly visited by visitors. It is typical for a native to go to a crumpet, glass or pie shop of former times

6) in the store it is easy to distinguish it because it ALWAYS:

* buys rye bread (and not Darnitsa like all visitors) and a city salted loaf (with bran, oats, and other healthy additives), and not a plump, huge sliced ​​sweet. At the same time, he used to often say “bun” “a loaf of bread”, and not “ White bread", "loaf". In Lately after mentioning this fact in the media and on the stage, such expressions are less common

* does not eat imported chocolates, but only bitter, porous ones from the factory. Krupskaya or Babaevsky or any other natural non-dairy chocolate without fillers

* As a side dish for meat, he prefers rice to fish. Maybe eat it every day for years. Never eats rice in sweet cereals or pasta with sugar. Able to break off relations with a person who consumes pasta with sugar.

* loves smelt, a fish unknown to anyone in the country, and makes up legends about it that it is from the salmon family. The price of this mediocre small fish grows every year beyond any reasonable limits and already exceeds the price of the most expensive varieties of fish

* shawarma everywhere, and in St. Petersburg - shawarma, this confuses Muscovites

* a native always has an incurable chronic runny nose, and he often sniffles

Rainy day

* prefers beer - vodka, port wine, cognac, and dogs - dogs and cats. Although the glamorous fashion for cats has recently finally broken St. Petersburg, the dogs there are becoming smaller and smaller, adapting to the cat format

* Alcoholism is not uncommon and is usually carefully hidden. Beer is the drink of the common people, the villagers. A resident of St. Petersburg does not drink it even with a hangover. A large number of breweries and beer lovers in St. Petersburg - this is precisely the trade and habits of “those who come here in large numbers,” who already make up more than half of the city’s population (offhand)

7) love for dogs and their abundance in houses, alleys, courtyards and what remains after them - this is a special, separate song about St. Petersburg. Capable of breaking off a relationship with a person for those who love dogs, and if he doesn’t like his personal dog, then he will make an enemy forever;

8) he uses the words “come in large numbers here” easily and naturally if his rules are violated or his rights are infringed. In this case, it is observed high level tolerance and goodwill towards visitors who have accepted, understood and observed the fundamental rules of life;

9) still, of course, always remains the same when addressing a woman of any age and social status“lady”, and not “woman”, “girl”, and even more so “citizen” or “madam”;

Elagin Island. Winter

10) A little greedy and tight-fisted. Likes to save money so that later he can buy (in torn jeans) the most expensive cigarettes, wine, collectibles or perfume, in short, something impractical, for the soul;

11) The idea of ​​non-residents about a St. Petersburg resident as a sad, timid type with a complex is incorrect. A native Petersburger is a cheerful optimist, with all his delicacy, he has a pronounced sense of humor, irony, sarcasm, he can very delicately and imperceptibly, and if necessary, then sharply, mockingly, in the place of anyone, not shying away from obscenities, profanity, which uses casually, appropriately and with great grace;

12) And finally. He is never an oligarch. Anyone who pretends to be a native of St. Petersburg and an oligarch, if you dig a little deeper, you will find a grandmother from Chutovka, Poltava province, living in an apartment bought for her in a good residential area.

Girls who dream of a hereditary noble aristocrat-oligarch better throw this nonsense out of their heads and reorient themselves to a cunning little man from the provinces, who has a better chance of turning out to be an oligarch.

That's why modern girls(including the indigenous ones) a native St. Petersburg man cannot please, he will not leave offspring and soon this species will die out with all its characteristics and shortcomings.

Used own photos author

Copyright PostKlau 2014

TRANSPORT TAX in St. Petersburg it is higher than in Moscow, it is generally the highest in Russia. But residents of St. Petersburg can easily obtain a Schengen multiple visa at the Finnish consulate by writing in the application form that they are going to go to Finland for shopping.

IN THE MOSCOW SUPERMARKET The St. Petersburg woman is asked to speak louder and faster. In a St. Petersburg supermarket they think that a Muscovite wants to sell them something. In the Moscow metro people run so purposefully towards an empty seat that a St. Petersburger understands: in this city one cannot hesitate.

PETERSBURGERS LOVE WALKING AROUND THE CITY, Muscovites also like to walk around this same city, no one likes to walk around Moscow. No further than from the entrance to the car, from the car to the club, bar, restaurant. Conversations on the go are not accepted in Moscow, because moving through space on foot is a temporary state from which everyone wants to get out of as soon as possible.

TO FEEL LIKE A MUSCOVITE, it is enough to live in Moscow for several years. To become a St. Petersburg resident, you need to be born in the third generation.

NATIVE MOSCOWVICH he may well say: “I don’t like Moscow,” and no one will condemn him for this; a native Petersburger does not directly express his feelings, but when he hears that someone insultingly compared his city with Stockholm, he harbors a grudge.

PETERSBURGER IS PERSUASIVE, as it is in Moscow, everyone obediently lines up in front of the front door of a bus with a turnstile - he is accustomed to the conductor who will approach him himself while he comfortably hangs on the handrail.

PETERSBURG DISEASE- chronic sinusitis. Moscow disease is chronic stress. When moving, they mutually enrich themselves.

MOSCOW DISCUSSION it is incomprehensible to a St. Petersburger about where good cheesecakes are and until how long they are served. He is least interested in breakfast, and in general he eats less often and less than a Muscovite. He accepts the offer from Moscow friends to meet at 9 am for breakfast stoically, but is half an hour late because he went to bed at five, and before going to bed, he was thinking and smoking.

MYTHICAL ELEGANCE Petersburgers do not come from a good life. The principle was formed even before the war: wear dark, do not wear a white collar, do not look bourgeois. The “formers” were afraid to stand out. And the St. Petersburg resident is still trying to make the suit minimalistic. Muscovites want to be smart, and they didn’t care about the climate when they bought pink shoes.

ACCEPTED IN MOSCOW gather a motley group of unfamiliar people. In St. Petersburg they gather in a narrow circle of “their own”; they drag these “their own” with them everywhere if good looms ahead.

PETERSBURG THEATERS they buy tickets for the third tier so as not to spend 6 thousand on the stalls, which they don’t have anyway. Before the third bell, they run to the box office, ask which seats are not sold, rush to the stalls and plop down on them. There are no free places in Moscow.

PETERSBURGER IS INDIGENT, when one of the locals gets confused in the names “Syezdovskaya” - “Syezzhinskaya”. Having moved to Moscow, he declares: everyone is here in large numbers, there is no one to ask for directions, and there is nothing wrong with that.

AND MUSCOVITES, AND PETERSBURGERS they curse their roads and traffic jams with the same words. But, once in Moscow, the St. Petersburg resident understands that the dialogue “Where do you live? “In a traffic jam on Kutuzovsky” is quite reliable.

PETERSBURG IS NOT A CITY, BUT A SECT. The city is small, so one football team enough. Everyone supports Zenit and is on VKontakte. Muscovites do not suffer from morbid patriotism.

I’ll tell you first of all about young people. It is divided into two parts - which in principle left or want to leave, and the second - which is not going to leave, for various reasons, usually pragmatic.

Just as many Russians want to move to Moscow, many St. Petersburg residents want to move to Europe. If for all of Russia moving to Moscow is considered a career advancement, then for St. Petersburg residents it is an incredible fall from grace. Because salaries there are still 2 times higher, but very few people move there, and usually work on a “shift basis”. That is why on Monday morning all St. Petersburg-Moscow flights are clogged, and on Friday evening - Moscow-St. Petersburg.

The life of that part of the youth who remained can be characterized by one expression: “my parents bought me an apartment” (with variations). The essence of the expression is that when average salary 40 thousand re they enjoy life and don’t stress and don’t particularly strive for anything.

As you might guess, those who have gone abroad are being replaced by those who have come in large numbers from the regions of Russia (to which I myself belong). On average, they are usually more ambitious and energetic, because you have to pay rent or a mortgage, your parents are unlikely to help you, because they are in another city, and there are much fewer friends.

In general, the absence of cattle and the special history of the city have led to the fact that the average city dweller does not exist at all. A special stratum consists of people of culture, of different origins- from the descendants of counts to romantic natures who came to enroll in MUKH, but work as waiters. (MUKHA - St. Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Industry named after A.L. Stieglitz, former Leningrad Higher Art and Industry School named after V.I. Mukhina, hence the name).

For example, my former director, having once read another news about newly found paintings by Rembrandt, exclaimed: “Well, where did they find Rembrandt?! I understand, I had Monet’s sketches lying behind my chest of drawers, but where did Rembrandt come from!”

Rockers and all other informals have somehow faded away and are practically absent as a phenomenon, with the exception of concerts held several times a year by “Alice”, “Ours in the City”, clubs like “Cosmonaut” and “Mani Honey”.

For the sake of fairness, it is worth noting that there is a special class of young people - those who have returned from abroad. Usually from Europe or America. The reasons for returning are banal.

• Firstly, you won’t work as a waiter all your life. But in order to get the position of even a seedy sales manager, you still need to fit perfectly into the culture western country, which not everyone succeeds in.
• Secondly, it's boring. After all, such big cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow there are almost none in Europe. Accordingly, find yourself a company or at least parties with similar interests, even in European capitals and even more so in the states it’s quite difficult.

Never, you hear, never, under any circumstances should you do this in St. Petersburg! The editors of the ZagraNitsa portal have compiled a list of 10 things that local residents definitely won’t like

We have collected quite stereotypical judgments about the residents of St. Petersburg, which need to be treated with a bit of humor. But in every joke, as you know, there is a grain of humor.

Entrance

This is so banal that it seems almost ridiculous, but St. Petersburg residents are truly offended when they hear their beautiful, ancient front doors called plebeian “entrances.” The thing is that in St. Petersburg, even the main staircases can often be called works of art, and it’s not worth talking about the fact that they give tours ().

Peter

Disputes about this reduction have not ceased for a long time. Some people think that it is unbecoming to address a majestic city in such a familiar manner, while others consider Northern Palmyra an old friend with whom feigned politeness is not needed. However, the majority of residents of St. Petersburg still adhere to the first position. To many townspeople, the word “Peter” seems slangy, unworthy and even unaesthetic. And aesthetics decides here - accept it. And if St. Petersburg residents can still figure out among themselves how best to call hometown, then it’s definitely better for visitors to show respect once again.

Comparison with Moscow

Every self-respecting Petersburger, somewhere deep inside or on a subconscious level, at least a little, despises Moscow. The question here is not even about the snobbery attributed to the residents of St. Petersburg, but about the historical circumstances that took away the status of the capital from the city on the Neva. This injustice has sunk into the soul of the average St. Petersburger and does not allow him to sincerely fall in love with Belokamennaya. Citizens consider the rhythm of life in the capital too fast, and Muscovites as uncultured and pretentious. Therefore, any remark “but in Moscow...” will be received here more hostilely than cordially.

Familiarity

In St. Petersburg, the habit of addressing each other as “you,” emphasizing respect for the interlocutor, is quite firmly rooted in the subconscious of the residents. Therefore, it seems incomprehensible to many why a stranger allows himself to be “poked”, especially in transport or other in public places. So even if it seems to you that addressing “you” is a relic of the past, when talking with St. Petersburg residents, try to be polite and have a good tone.

Lack of culture

Next to the intolerance of familiar address among residents Northern capital stands for rudeness, rudeness and ignorance. Use the words “please”, “kindly”, “thank you” in your speech and you will feel good about yourself. As an experiment, ask any passerby on the street for directions and listen to how sympathetically and politely they will help you. At one time, in public transport, it was written on the holders that a real St. Petersburger will always apologize if he steps on his neighbor’s foot. The townspeople demand the same attitude towards themselves, which is quite natural.

Lack of admiration for cultural heritage

Everyone knows that St. Petersburg is cultural capital Russia. Here is the architecture of Rastrelli, the painting of the Hermitage, the cradle of Russian poetry, Dostoevsky and Brodsky, the music of the Kino group, here the history of the latter ends Russian monarchs. No one can argue with this, and, naturally, St. Petersburg residents are very proud of this entire heritage. If you, having arrived in St. Petersburg, are not delighted with the views of the drawbridges over the waters of the Neva, the architecture of the Kazan Cathedral, the sculptures in Summer Garden and other everyday things for city residents - something is wrong with you. At the same time, the townspeople themselves extremely rarely praise their swamp, as if silently confirming that this goes without saying. Also most of residents love their city so much that they don’t talk about its flaws and shortcomings. Never complain to a St. Petersburger that homeless people are shitting in the front door, that tickets to the museum are too expensive, that the bridge system is wildly inconvenient, that it has been raining outside for two weeks now, and traffic jams in the center take up hours of time.

Ironic remarks about St. Petersburg residents

In fact, St. Petersburg residents are very... It is a smile that helps them to relate with ease to the eternal rain and dampness, cold, stinking front doors and many other vicissitudes of fate. Among themselves, residents of the city on the Neva often use a special kind of gloomy humor, but such a joke from the mouth of a visitor or tourist can offend unpleasantly. So, during your visit, try not to tease the locals, especially about snobbery, depression and other traits attributed to them.

Gibberish

Indifference to reading

The literacy that we just talked about did not develop by itself among St. Petersburg residents - the city residents were helped in this by their love of reading. According to observations, there are really a lot of people in St. Petersburg. And if they don’t read, then at least they can distinguish Dostoevsky from Tolstoy, Akhmatova from Tsvetaeva, and if you wake up in the middle of the night, they will name at least five poets Silver Age. So if you are not a lover of literature, at least try not to show it to the public.

A native hereditary resident of St. Petersburg is such a special breed of people, different not only from the average Russian, but also from a local resident of recent bottling. Among the native hereditary St. Petersburgers there are indeed many descendants of historical or aristocratic families; their habits are hereditary, developed over the years, ingrained in genetics and unchangeable. Therefore, they are relatively easy to distinguish from non-indigenous residents. This may be useful to know for those coming to the city for proper orientation. It must be said that, due to their habits, the Russian-speaking population of the Baltic states has always been close to the residents of St. Petersburg, primarily because it was made up there of sent military families (locally, occupiers) whose origin often led to that same St. Petersburg.

What are these differences? Native resident of St. Petersburg

1) HATES and never uses the word “Peter” and St. Petersburg people. He will publicly shame the person who says this. It is necessary to say “St. Petersburg” and even “Leninigrad residents” better than “Petersburg residents”, since this is the word of the proletarian outskirts

2) it’s easy to spot a St. Petersburg resident on the street by their tatty, threadbare clothes (they quickly get worn out in the crush of public transport). The shoes of a St. Petersburg resident always look better than clothes. He will polish his shoes (even if they are old) constantly and daily on autopilot. And also sneakers, sneakers and smoothing creases on old torn jeans. Second-hand clothing is not considered bad manners; it is a local form of “sport hunting”, sometimes for the sake of the process. Successful “hunters” are envied regardless of social media. status. Although there is not always enough time for this pleasure

4) in the store it is easy to distinguish it because it is ALWAYS

* buys rye bread (and not Darnitsa like all visitors) and a city salted loaf (with bran, oats, and other healthy additives), and not a plump, huge sliced ​​sweet. At the same time, he always says “bun”, “loaf of bread”, and not “white bread”, “loaf”

* does not eat imported chocolates, but only bitter or porous ones from the factory. Krupskaya

* as a side dish for meat, prefers rice to fish. Maybe eat it every day for years. Never eats rice in sweet cereals or pasta with sugar. Able to break off relations with a person who consumes pasta with sugar.

*loves smelt, a fish unknown to anyone in the country, and makes up legends about it that it is from the salmon family. The price of this mediocre small fish grows every year beyond any reasonable limits and already exceeds the price of the most expensive varieties of fish

* prefers beer - vodka, port, cognac and dogs - over dogs and cats. Alcoholism is common. Beer is the drink of the common people, the villagers. A resident of St. Petersburg does not drink it even with a hangover. A large number of breweries and beer lovers in St. Petersburg - this is precisely the trade and habits of “those who come here in large numbers”

The love for dogs and their abundance in houses, alleys, courtyards and what remains after them is a special, separate song about St. Petersburg. Capable of breaking off relations with a person who doesn’t like dogs, and if he doesn’t like his personal dog, then he’s made an enemy forever

He uses the words “come in large numbers here” easily and naturally if his rules are violated or his rights are infringed. He will never say them to a newcomer who has accepted and observed the fundamental rules of life.
Will pretend or sincerely believe it local resident, who receive the right to say to violators “come in large numbers here”

At the same time, of course, the appeal to a woman of any age and social class always remains unchanged. status "lady" and not "woman", "girl" or "madam"

And finally, he is never an oligarch. Anyone who pretends to be a native of St. Petersburg and an oligarch, if you dig a little deeper, you will find a grandmother from Chutovka, Poltava province, living in an apartment bought for her in a residential area. Girls who dream of a hereditary aristocrat-oligarch should better throw this nonsense out of their heads and reorient themselves to a cunning peasant from the provinces; he has a better chance of turning out to be an oligarch.
Therefore, modern girls (including indigenous ones) cannot like a native St. Petersburg man, he will not leave offspring, and soon this species will become extinct with all its characteristics and shortcomings.