Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Life in 1900 St.Petersburg


A photographic travelogue of 1900 St.Petersburg gives a much better feel for historians than dry text. In the picture at right, carriages await customers strolling in the Summer Garden. In the distance is a small chapel commemorating the attempted assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1866.

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