The Bronze Horseman, Saint-Petersburg, and Translation in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Guest speaker: Sergey Tyulenev. Clifford Geertz wrote that ideological metaphors are symbolic maps. The statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman, the city of Saint-Petersburg, "Peter’s Creation" (Pushkin) are such metaphor-maps of major social reforms carried out through translation: therefore translation constitutes yet another dimension of these maps.