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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Twin center break to St. Petersburg & Moscow, Russia - 7 ...
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Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya - 4* - St. Petersburg
With a prime location to the main exhibition centre, Lenexpo and on the edge of the Gulf of Finland, the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya is a modern and comfortable 1200 rooms hotel ideal for business and leisure travellers. 720 rooms just new designed in April 2 [... more]
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin was born in Russia in 1884. Arrested during the abortive 1905 revolution, he was exiled twice from St. Petersburg, then given amnesty in 1913. We, composed in 1920 and 1921, elicited attacks from party-line critics and writers. ... [... more]
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Rumi 2009 Wall Calendar
Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is a master of ecstatic poetry. His masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout history, and today, thanks to the magical translations of Coleman Barks, Rumi's poetry is more popular than ever. Bark's translations [... 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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