Previously published: London: Century, 2013.

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St Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of her native Kiev to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed into the flam

St. Petersburg covers the city's political and social history, as well as its infinite contributions to scholarship, culture, and world politics.