The Shadow of St. Petersburg — Part 2

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Shadow of St. Petersburg — Part 2 Michael Arbuzov is a builder now. In Gulfport he raises brick streets and a business, raises his family by the bay, and signs the contract for a promenade built on ground other families were cleared from — the one entry in his ledger he can never balance. Part Two carries him through storm and memory to the end of his life, and closes with the Epilogue: Mariya and the sons, the war years, and the homecoming of 1945. Part Two concludes The Shadow of St. Petersburg, the second book in The Stones of St. Petersburg, a KacheliTV season of the author's own books. The book closes with the author's own song, "Summer Night, A Fire, And You," played in full after the Epilogue. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:30 — Introduction 1:00 — Chapter Nine — The Brick Streets of Heaven 36:39 — Chapter Ten — The Storm and the Cross 56:41 — Chapter Eleven — The Roads of Memory 70:46 — Chapter Twelve — The Handshake of Heaven 92:42 — Epilogue — The Sons of the Bay Music: instrumental windows between the chapters, from the author's designated set for this book: Banjo and Violins 2, Untitled Instrumental 6, Backroad Harmonica, Untitled Instrumental 3; closing song "Summer Night, A Fire, And You" in full. No music runs beneath the narration. Source: The Shadow of St. Petersburg by Nick A. Shishkov (Nick Shishkov Press, Gulfport, Florida). The front matter and the author's note are not narrated. The Stones of St. Petersburg is an ongoing KacheliTV season of the author's own books, told in parts.