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I have been to Czech Rep, St petersburg, Warsaw Copenhagen, Barcelona, Lyon and all over Germany numerous times on business before I rejoined the Army in '02.
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I have been to Czech Rep, St petersburg, Warsaw Copenhagen, Barcelona, Lyon and all over Germany numerous times on business before I rejoined the Army in '02.
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Posted in Josef Stalin, Russian orthodox, Stalin a saint, communists, st. petersburg.
Your Daily Irony: A Godless Communist Canonized? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Posted in Josef Stalin, Russian orthodox, Stalin a saint, communists, st. petersburg.
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Hopefully, your next stop will be a retirement community in st. petersburg.
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I am from Guinea and too poorly know English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Optima tours offers you hotel accommodation in saint petersburg at the best possible rates.”
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Mr. 9/11 should just retire to the golf course in little ny, st petersburg, florida.
Rudy Lives! He Resurfaces To Attack Obama Over -- What Else -- September 11th 2009
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He has also visited st petersburg, the tretyakayov and the other art museums in Moscow. needless to say my dad has a massive art interest, very lucky for me who gets to drool over his books!
Midday Near Moscow James Gurney 2009
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He can just stay there and retire to st. petersburg.
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Hopefully, your next stop will be a retirement community in st. petersburg.
Report: Rudy Finished, Will Drop Out And Endorse John McCain 2009
rolig commented on the word petersburg
As a "state of mind" this is the mystical, misty, and mythical city of Saint Petersburg, which in the Russian mentality, stands in contradistinction to the natural, earthy city of Moscow. Russians always drop the "saint" part of the name (which in Russian is not really Russian, but a borrowing from Dutch: Санкт–Петербург – Sankt-Peterburg) and often call it familiarly simply Peter. This is the town Peter the Great summoned from the festering swamp by the force of his will, where a century later his statue, The Bronze Horseman comes alive to drive the poor, bereaved Evgeny mad; where Raskolnikov plots Nietzschean murder and Ivan Karamazov has visions of the devil; where Aleksandr Blok imagines Christ as leading a band of revolutionaries in The Twelve, and Andrej Bely imagines assassins and terrorists in masquerade dominos in his great toponymic novel Petersburg; this is the place Akhmatova cannot leave even if it means being turned into a pillar of salt like Lot's wife, and of which Mandelshtam says "I have returned to my city, familiar to the point of tears…"
September 5, 2008