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All of the authors reviewed in this essay reference the classic psychological study of St. Petersburg; N. P. Antiferov, Dusha Peterburga [The Soul of Petersburg], (1922, rpt. edn., Leningrad, 1991).
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To quote Lincoln, “Elegant, harmonious, and splendid in so many ways, a window to the West, and a monument to Russia's modern achievements, the city (by the 1840s) had become also cold, its beauty as deceptive as the White Nights that turned so quickly into darkness at noon” (120).