"St Petersburg, the city built on bones" Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Apr 2020 4:23 p.m. PST |
"Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia from 1682-1725, is one of the most compelling yet brutal rulers I have ever read about. On the one hand he was strongly influenced by the Enlightenment, a champion of science and a great builder of state and public institutions. On the other, he was a capricious autocrat who ruled over a degenerate drunken court and had scant regard for the life of the poverty-stricken masses. In his youth, Peter travelled throughout Europe learning about shipbuilding and admiring Amsterdam and London (my favourite anecdote is how he and his courtiers completely trashed John Evelyn's house and garden in Deptford, after Evelyn unwisely let it to them for their English visit). Peter returned from his tour determined to make his country into a great European power, and to build a magnificent city worthy of a newly resurgent Russia…"
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| MikeTJ | 01 May 2020 8:05 a.m. PST |
Good read and timely. Wife and are binge watching Ekaterina (w/ English subtitles). Russian production on Catherine the Great. Thanks |
| Tango01 | 12 May 2020 9:16 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile)
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