Вашему вниманию предлагается прекрасно оформленное и богато иллюстрированное подарочное издание с шелковым ляссе. Книга вложена в подарочный футляр, украшенный золотым тиснением. "An eagle, looking down at St Petersburg from a high altitude, will notice the unity of the will that has powerfully brought the city to life and will sense the wonderworking builder, whose ideas have been roughly embodied in an inert matter," asserted the writer and historian Nikolai Antsiferov, a recognized connoisseur of Russia's northern capital. It seems that Antsiferov mentioned this bird not by chance - St Petersburg has its own "eagle history". Legend has it that when Tsar Peter the Great, the city's founder, shovelled the first clod of earth himself on Hare Island, laying the foundation of a fortress with which the history of St Petersburg began, an eagle sat down on his shoulder. Peter regarded it as a good omen. And it happened so - the city, founded on a marshland and doomed to...

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