< br />
St. Petersburg, July 28 Guest of the Second Russia-Africa Summit Chifamba Wallace Munyaradzi Tonderai, from Zimbabwe, who is studying at a medical school in Nizhny Novgorod, said he was impressed by the courtesy of the people of St. Petersburg.
«I've only been here twice. The difference between St. Petersburg and many large cities, it seemed to me, is that people here are polite. Not that in other cities people are not good, but more serious, everyone is in business , it’s even scary just … to ask a person how to get there or here. And in St. Petersburg, I remember, the last time we asked — and the person not only showed where to go, but even offered to walk with us so that we would not get lost, » Tonderai said.
According to his impressions, residents of St. Petersburg smile more often than residents of other Russian cities.
He added that he had not yet visited either the Hermitage or the Mariinsky Theatre, because ballet was «too classical an art» for him. But this does not prevent him from loving Russian classical literature.
«I love Dostoevsky, especially the novel «The Idiot». (This book) directly captured the heart,» the African admitted.
As a token of love for Russian literature, he recited Robert Rozhdestvensky's poem «Everything begins with love» in Russian by heart.