A bold tribute to the Venice of the North and Imperial Capital on the Neva where Saint Petersburg, founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703 on the marshy delta of the Neva River on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Finland and built at incalculable human cost by conscripted serfs and workers in the swamps and floods of the Baltic, was Peter's radical, Europe-facing window on the West, the imperial capital that for two centuries served as the political, cultural, and intellectual centre of the Russian Empire and the stage for the most dramatic events of Russian history including the Decembrist Uprising of 1825, the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and the revolutions of February and October 1917 that transformed the world, where the Hermitage Museum occupying the Winter Palace and five connected buildings houses one of the largest and most encyclopedic art collections in the world with over three million works, where the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Admiralty, the Kazan Cathedral, and the Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great create an imperial cityscape of extraordinary grandeur, and where Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, and Akhmatova wove Saint Petersburg's canals, bridges, and pale northern nights into a literary mythology as rich as any city in the world.
Product Details
Size: 2"x2" (5x5 cm)
Material: Glossy film over photo paper print, metal frame, plastic base with magnet
Weight: 20g
Magnet strength: Strong, holds securely on fridges and metal surfaces
Made in Canada 🍁
Why You'll Love It
City Identity: Celebrate Saint Petersburg's Venice of the North and Neva Hermitage imperial Russian heritage
Perfect Gift 🎁: Ideal for Saint Petersburg city lovers and Russia imperial culture fans
Versatile Display 🧲: Looks great on any fridge or metal surface
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