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Picture of more than a thousand words... Storch's Picture of Petersburg, 1792, set a standard for European accounts of the city and is still quoted today. Storch says, "One of the most important phenomena of this period [the 18th century] is without…

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Location, Location... One can see from looking at a map that the piece of real estate Peter chose on which to plant a city might have been an ideal gate for trade from West to East and East to West for centuries. But most maps don't show what a…

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We've Come a Long Way, Baba. Leningrad, aiming as it was to be a new place in a new time with a new government and society was a natural for the ferment of a literature of science fiction. Strongly influenced by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, 20th…

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Coals From Newcastle. Near the end of the 18th century the English replaced the French in Peterborough as the ethnic group to imitate. The English were fewer than the Germans and French and they were almost non-existent in the provinces, that is to…

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Come on Baba, Light my Fire... The Zhar Ptitsa, or Firebird, is one of the most important of the ex-patriot magazines of art, literature, and dance published in the Russian diaspora after World War I. The title is a no-brainer: it's one of the best…

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When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling. This little pamphlet contains the impressions of an Irish delegation of their six-week tour at invitation of the All-Russian Trade Union Council to investigate conditions in the Soviet Union. A number of days were…
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