Saint Petersburg , City, Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...buildings of the early 18th cent. are the Alexander Nevsky monastery (1710), the Cathedral...Sciences library. Outside the city are Pushkin , with the Summer Palace, and the former...Petersburg was immortalized in the novels of Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy...