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Sunlight at Midnight - St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (Paperback)
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Sunlight at Midnight - St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (Paperback)
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For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and
fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are
and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance
blend with images of suffering on a monumental scale to make up the
historic persona the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish biography of
this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what
Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when he decided to build a new
capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500
miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather,
bad water and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful
of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. Yet to the Tsar the
place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a paradise.
His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to
London, Paris and Vienna than to Russian's far-off eastern lands,
it quickly became the political, cultural and economic center of an
empire that stretched across more than a dozen time zones and over
three continents.In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush
shoulders with tsars and builders, soldiers and statesmen share
pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical
experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the
wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history
of the city and the nation it represents.
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