Country: Russia

Russia I know as a grey north out of thick novels read in a hot country; St. Petersburg is a city willed up from a marsh that I have never gone to see.

  • Charcoal sketch of the wide Neva at a pale white-night dusk, a long low palace facade running along the embankment and a thin gold spire across the water - never been abroad

    St. Petersburg

    St. Petersburg is a city someone willed up out of a swamp and a sentence, and I have been living in the sentence for years without ever buying the ticket.

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