St. Isaac’s Cathedral had become a memory and a story, but recent news from St. Petersburg brought back strong insights and emotions I experienced there and in Russia nearly two…
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Rasputin
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Russia-phobes are in full flower as America descends into the Trump swamp. Fear and hostility between the two peoples are greater than at any point since the Cold War. But…
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It was the beginning of the last full year of the USSR, when St. Petersburg was still named after Lenin. As dusk deepened in the unlit palace museum where Rasputin…