Saint Petersburg , City, Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...masterpiece and the subject of Pushkins poem "The Bronze Horsemen...the early 18th cent. are the Alexander Nevsky monastery (1710), the...library. Outside the city are Pushkin , with the Summer Palace, and...immortalized in the novels of Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, and...