Golden Potatoes and Dried Butterflies

by Galina Stolyarova

16 August 2010

Conservatism and lack of a coherent urban vision are having a strange effect on St. Petersburg. While faceless office blocks proliferate, cutting-edge architecture is scorned by officials and the public alike.

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