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St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.

I never write about a place I don't know.

I've never had a very great public life.

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

I never got into coffee.