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Sergei Shchukin

Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg

December 25, 2019October 26, 2016 by Editorial Team

Built from scratch by the tsars, imperial St Petersburg was at the epicentre of the Russian Revolution. Harriet Green scours its streets for Lenin’s legacy

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