St Petersburg―'Venice of the North'

St Petersburg

 

St Petersburg has a glorious past. It was founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as a new capital of Russia. Although first named St Petersburg, it was subsequently named Petrograd, then Leningrad and back to St Petersburg in 1991.

Often known as Summer playground of the tsars, it was yet a place where evangelical Christianity experienced spiritual revival towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Men like George Muller, and Lord Radstock of the British Aristocracy, played leading roles in Revival preaching.

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