Leningrad, the Soviet "City of three Revolutions". The city has been called St. Petersburg (Saint Petersburg), Petrograd, Leningrad and then St. Petersburg again (in Finnish: Pietari).
Notes on the Leningrad art scene, e.g. Timur Novikov, the founder of the "New Artists".
The writer, former Associate Editor of Project Syndicate, is currently researching the Russian creative intelligentsia at the University of Helsinki.