The Fall 2016

Defined as “The lapse of humankind into a state of sin ascribed in traditional Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis”

Throughout history many civilizations and individuals have experienced a seeming and often sudden fall from grace. From the very beginnings of the Twentieth Century, modern civilization, particularly in Europe, seemed to shatter and fail. Few cities experienced a more prolonged version of this than St Petersburg where in the words of Akhamatova “But along the legendary esplanade of the Neva, the Twentieth century approached, not the one on the calendar, the real one.”