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Old Petersburg

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Old Petersburg
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This book by Mikhail Ivanovich Pylyaev, a renowned journalist, local historian, and chronicler of everyday life, introduces readers to the history of St. Petersburg, its landmarks, daily life, and customs of Russia's northern capital in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first edition of "Old Petersburg" was published in 1887, but this remarkable book remains as popular with modern readers as it was over a hundred years ago. Indeed, how else can one learn the route taken by elephants to water in St. Petersburg two hundred years ago, and why their diet included so many buckets of vodka; why Catherine the Great detested apples, and why nothing but a silver coffee pot was lost during the fire in the Winter Palace in December 1837? Engagingly written, Mikhail Pylyaev's book contains numerous little-known and interesting facts and historical anecdotes. The publication is illustrated with antique engravings and lithographs.
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