Tom Holland and Dominic Sandford, on their excellent podcast ‘The rest is history’, recently featured a series on the subject of Peter the Great and the Great Northern War. I have not yet had time to listen to the whole narrative, but I much enjoyed the first episode which told the story of Peter’s early […]
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The Great Flood of 1824
In this very strange year for weather unseasonable floods have been reported in some parts of the world. I was reminded of this recently when giving my talk ‘The Bronze Horseman, A tale of Peterburg’ to a group of hospitable WI Members in Long Melford. The talk focusses on Peter the Great and the founding […]
Ice on the Neva
Ice on the Neva According to the Neva Delta Company website this winter the river Neva in St Petersburg is likely to be frozen for longer than average. This is in marked contrast to recent years in which warmer temperatures have meant that sometimes the river remained ice free, and tourist boats have continued to […]