Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson is an editor at the St. Petersburg Times and the author of the acclaimed Right on the Edge of Crazy: On Tour with the U.S. Ski Team. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. [... more]
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Elaine Blair
Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers who lived there. For each of the fifteen profiled writers, there is a biographical sketch focusing on his or her relationship to the ... [... more]
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the ... [... more]
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Barbara Scrupski
In glittering St. Petersburg, we meet Countess Alexandra Korvin: beautiful and intelligent, but also unmarried and-thanks to her late spendthrift... is the epic story of a destitute young countess in Tsarist Russia who tries every avenue to ... [... more]
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David Lindsey
Irina Ismaylova is a sexual assassin, luring men and women to her bed...and their death. From St. Petersburg to Paris, she kills not for money or for pleasure, but under orders from the Russian mafioso who holds her in thrall. Desperate to buy ... [... more]
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Neal Thompson
Neal Thompson is a veteran journalist who has worked for the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and St. Petersburg Times, and whose magazine stories have appeared in Outside, Esquire, Backpacker, and Men's Health. He teaches at the University ... [... more]
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Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell is the author of Chasing the Sea and God Lives in St. Petersburg, and a contributing editor to Harper's and the Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2006 he was awarded the Rome Fellowship by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his ... [... more]
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Michael Ricardson
Michael Richardson is a retired investigative reporter, news editor, and editor of editorials in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the author of After Amin, the Bloody Pearl, a human rights documentary, and editor of Ethics Applied, a college ... [... more]
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Valerian Albanov
Valerian Albanov was born in 1881 in Voronezh, Russia, and graduated in 1904 from the Naval College of St. Petersburg. Despite his harrowing voyage aboard the Saint Anna, he continued going to sea until his death in 1919. Jon Krakauer is the ... [... more]
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Ronan Bennett
Zugzwang: A chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessness-he is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse. The year is 1914, and St. Petersburg is spellbound by the ... [... more]
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Phil LaMarche
Phil LaMarche was a writing fellow in the Syracuse University graduate creative writing program. He was awarded the Ivan Klíma Fellowship in fiction in Prague and a Summer Literary Seminars fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia. His story "In [... more]
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Jeremy Howard
This new Traveler guide brings you the best of St. Petersburg, the enchanted, canal-crossed gem built by Peter the Great. Having survived three revolutions and three name changes, the city still lives on gloriously. The guide reviews St. ... [... more]
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