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Letter from St Petersburg, by the Magdalen Boy, Tom Clark
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St. Petersburg is, in a fashion, somewhat like Cambridge. Peter the Great visited Europe, was impressed by a rational Enlightenment model for civilisation and borrowed the best bits in order to found his own distilled version of Europe, like a God, forging his own envisaged order out of the shapeless marsh and leading Russia out of its supposedly dark and backward state. (more…)
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Our ‘expedition’ ship was the Lyubov Orlova, Russian owned and crewed, chartered and organised by the American firm Quark and with a European hotel staff. She carries just over 100 passengers. Icebreaker ‘adventure’ ships with about 80 passengers will put you ashore for (more…)
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