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...Richmond as a base to visit the last two tour stops: the Petersburg National Battlefield, where months of fighting led to the fall of Richmond, and Appomattox Court House, where Lee ultimately surrendered to Grant. Both are easy and worthwhile day trips from town--and a fitting way to end your tour...
...20th century, he is the least knowable of characters. As a boy growing up in Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek. The signal event of his youth--the event that radicalized him--came in 1887, when his eldest brother Alexander, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to help assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading communist theorist, tactician and party organizer...
After the collapse of the coup in August 1991, the people of Leningrad voted to call their city St. Petersburg once more. When Brodsky, who had been exiled from the city in 1964, was asked about the news, he smiled and said, "Better to have named it for a saint than a devil...
...while the idea is indeed amusing, they pay his rent. The scorn reminds me of how the Russian upper crust once castigated Peter the Great for being unafraid to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. Amazingly, in our huge, multinational country, where the residents of St. Petersburg speak with a different accent from those of Moscow, Gorbachev's southern speech is held against...
CITY POPULATIONS IN MILLIONS London 6.6 New York 3.4 Paris 2.7 Berlin 1.9 Chicago 1.7 Vienna 1.7 Tokyo 1.5 Wuhan, China 1.5 Philadelphia 1.3 St. Petersburg...