Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
—Alfred Tennyson
Tsar Peter the Great was a remarkable person not just because he was a powerful emperor. Peter was a great tyrant. Trying to bring Western civilization to Russia, he oppressed millions of people and forced them to change their habitual lifestyles, for better or worse.
Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg – the biggest city in the world north of the 60th parallel, which also goes through Greenland and Alaska – not necessarily the most comfortable place to ...
