A Fortnight in St. Petersburg (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Fortnight in St. Petersburg (Classic Reprint) written by Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Fortnight in St. Petersburg The Arctic Zone. The rays of its warlike glory stream to the zenith with a fiery splendor, the pathos of its oppres sion and its tragedies quivers and trem bles like the paler tints which die away upon the wintry sky. There is a similar mystery about its origin and growth, about its people and their heroes, about its cli mate and its landscape, its mythic put 8: its incalculable future. Among its many enigmas, its northern capital is by no means the least. Built in the brain of a monarch before its first foundations were laid, insisted upon by him in spite of the opposition of nature and the sullen nu willingness ot man - conceived upon a plan that requires centuries for its develop. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.