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St Petersburg and the British: The City Through the Eyes of British Visitors and Residents<br /> by Anthony Cross<br /> <br type="_moz" />

issue 23 August 2008

St Petersburg and the British: The City Through the Eyes of British Visitors and Residents
by Anthony Cross


To early English visitors St Petersburg seemed an ‘abstract’, artificial city with no roots in the past. It was the creation of one man, Peter the Great, determined to replace Moscow as the capital of his empire by a new city on the banks of the Neva ‘where there was nothing to be seen but marsh and water’.

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