An alternative guide to St Petersburg. Who are the real Petersburgers? What is portwine? Why is it important to be kind? Are Petersburgers just very inept? Why could you never mistake a Petersburger for a Muscovite?
The Other St Petersburg asks the questions other guidebooks are afraid to ask and comes up with the answers no one else has yet dared to publish.
The Other St Petersburg contains - amongst much else - translations of short stories by Daniil Kharms (The Old Woman, 1939) and Yevgeny Zvyagin (Shades of the Hermitage, 1983), and absolutely no mention of the Kirovsky Ballet, matryoshki, Peter the Great or what to do when your baggage gets rerouted via Melbourne.
The Other St Petersburg
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