Travelogues; . BROAD PETERSBURG wide great Russian doors upon the Baltic, the Arctic, theBlack Sea, and the Caspian, and the far-off Sea of Japan, thatthe winds of all the oceans may sweep across the mighty landthey dwell in The splendid monument to Peter that risesbetween St. Isaacs and the Neva, reminds us that his ambi-tion always looked seaward for its fulfilment. The pedestalis the very rock on which he stood to watch his new-born ST. PETERSBURG 109. PILLAKS OF THE PORTICO For Petersburg, we know,order, created by the ukase of awhose dream of progressmust have appeared tohis contemporarie
Travelogues; . BROAD PETERSBURG wide great Russian doors upon the Baltic, the Arctic, theBlack Sea, and the Caspian, and the far-off Sea of Japan, thatthe winds of all the oceans may sweep across the mighty landthey dwell in The splendid monument to Peter that risesbetween St. Isaacs and the Neva, reminds us that his ambi-tion always looked seaward for its fulfilment. The pedestalis the very rock on which he stood to watch his new-born ST. PETERSBURG 109. PILLAKS OF THE PORTICO For Petersburg, we know,order, created by the ukase of awhose dream of progressmust have appeared tohis contemporaries asthe hallucination of aninsane man. He chosean impossible spot inwhich to do an impossi-ble thing ; but at histouch, magically energetic, impossibility becamefacility. Here there wasno solid ground,— forestswere felled, tree-trunks bythe million were broughthither and sunk in the mud. was fleet, which he himselfhad helped to build, winits first victory over theSwedes near the bleakshores of Finland. Themassive monolith wasbrought hither at tre-mendous cost and afterconquering unheard-ofdifficulties, by Catherinethe Second, that Petersstatue might look downfrom a pedestal of rockupon the city which hehad caused to rise on theunstable islands of thesemarshes of the Neva,made toTsar,
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