fitness center in St. Petersburg Maria and Maxim Yakovlev

Passing the gallery

Leading headings: Nina Farizova

A photo: Alexey Tikhonov

Project author: Maxim Yakovlev, Maria Yakovleva

Magazine: (Pumping)

In classical European culture, the mover-ship motive appeared more than once. Suffice it to recall Brant's poem The Ship of Fools, Bosch’s Louvre canvas of the same name, Hauff's short story The Story of a Ghost Ship, and Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman. Now, in St. Petersburg, a ghost ship has appeared. On the Mytninskaya Embankment near the Birzhevoy Bridge, a three-masted sailboat froze - a copy of a thirty-bow Dutch flute built in the 18th century. “Flying Dutchman” is the name of this architectural object. A two-tier fitness center, an aerobics room, a restaurant, a beauty salon, a solarium - this is an incomplete list of rooms located inside. Despite such a paradoxical set, it does not interfere with perceiving the Flying Dutchman as a ship returning to the harbor from a distant journey.