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Peter's panorama: in the three centuries since its founding on the River Neva, St. Petersburg's haunting streets and spectacular architecture have inspired writers from Dostoevsky to Brodsky.(Locations)

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Date: 20031101
Author:Hearst, Andrew

FOUNDED ON SWAMPLAND THREE hundred years ago by Peter the Great, St. Petersburg is one of the most mysterious and alluring cities in all of Europe. Its history is filled with struggle and conflict: The opening battles of the Russian Revolution took place there, and during World War II--back when it was known, temporarily, as Leningrad--it was besieged by the Nazis for nine hundred days. The city's world-weary but passionate inhabitants, so memorably captured in the work of Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky, are a great feast for people-watchers. And the city, which celebrated ...

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