The Shadow of St. Petersburg — Part 1

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 1 Mikhail Arbuzov is twelve years old in 1880, the son of a senior clerk in the Imperial Department of Commerce, when his father sends him and his mother out of Saint Petersburg, Russia, and into exile. His mother dies in a village outside Paris. The boy crosses the Atlantic, sells newspapers on the streets of New York, learns the truth about a debt that has shadowed his family, and finds a teacher in a Detroit shoemaker. Part One ends on the road to Florida, and with a girl by the bay. Part One of The Shadow of St. Petersburg, the second book in The Stones of St. Petersburg, a KacheliTV season of the author's own books. A life story of exile and endurance: of what makes a builder, of the unfairness of the world he entered, and of the moral ledger a man carries all his life. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:30 — Introduction 1:06 — Prologue 4:36 — Chapter One — The House of Discipline 12:48 — Chapter Two — The Village of Exile 23:11 — Chapter Three — The Crossing 32:16 — Chapter Four — The Streets of New York 43:52 — Chapter Five — The Debt Revealed 57:24 — Chapter Six — The Shoemaker's Letter 87:16 — Chapter Seven — The Road to St. Petersburg 107:51 — Chapter Eight — The Girl by the Bay Music: instrumental windows between the chapters, from the author's designated set for this book: Banjo and Violins 2, Backroad Harmonica, Untitled Instrumental 3, Untitled Instrumental 4, Untitled Instrumental 6, Untitled Instrumental 5. 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.