Day: September 12, 2020
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‘The Girl From the Hermitage’
Tens of thousands of nameless older women inhabit St. Petersburg, picking their way amongst the pockmarked sidewalks and treacherous cobblestones, dressed in clean but shabby clothes, their shoulders stooped with decades of carrying heavy burdens. They are as integral to the city as the elaborate facades and the noonday gun from Peter and Paul Fortress,…