OK. I am learning something, I think:
the Kazan (scroll down), or Cauldron, is an astrobleme on the planet Dennitza in Poul Anderson's Technic History;
Kazan is a Russian city;
Kazan Cathedral is in St Petersburg;
but there is also a reconstructed Kazan Cathedral in Moscow.
When Fedoroff returned from Delta Pavonis, he had experienced twelve years although forty three had elapsed on Earth. He was pleased still to recognize:
Kazan Cathedral (the one in St Petersburg);
Alexander and Bucephalus over the Nevsky Prospect bridge;
the Hermitage.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
If I recall correctly, the huge asteroid which struck Dennitza and created that astrobleme turned the entire planet into a "snowball," glaciated from pole to pole. The Croats or Serbs who, much later, colonized Dennitza came as that Ice Age was finally ending (as described in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS).
Sean
Thank you, Sean. I believe they were Serbs, spoke "Serbic" and were Orthodox, as opposed to Catholic Croats....
A thought: who gets which colonizable planet? In (IMSM) 2300 CE our Mongol friends get stuck with iceball Altai, in 2400 the Serbs go to Dennitza, and in 2500 South African Kleurlinge ("Boer Bantus") go to watery Nyanza, etc...
-Keith
Kaor, Sean!
I don’t think Dennitza was quite glaciated from pole to pole; we see a warming Dennitza having native animal life which the human settlers hunt and otherwise interact with; it’s hard to see how animals big enough to be dangerous to humans, and to be worth taking as trophies, would have survived if all the soil, meadows, and forests had been buried under glaciers. The asteroid strike did create an ecological disaster, from which the planet was recovering when humans arrived.
Best Regards,
Nicholas
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