St. Petersburg

East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. And yet, as I cast my eye over St. Petersburg, with its architectural style (that the makers long deliberated over) and the metronomic symmetry of it all, it seems to me as if it is worlds apart from Russia and yet somehow intricately intimate with the Russian world. Springing from the fountainhead of inspiration of Tsar Peter the Great (whose reign lasted from 672 to 1725), the city was borne of the desire to usher Russia into the waiting arms of Europe and, as a consequence of that, into the consciousness of the world. “Dah, Peter (that’s what the locals call it) is one of the most unique cities of the world”, was the effusive insight from Gennadi, my comrade in arms and source of opinion on two feet. Opinionated or not, even Gennadi would agree that the Tsar was nothing if not farsighted and this vision of his was to prove the making of St. Petersburg in more ways than one.

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