This past weekend I traveled to Toronto. I went there for two reasons: to see the exhibit called “Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century” at the Bata Shoe Museum, and to meet my friend … Read More
During the building of St. Petersburg (1703 – 16) laborers were paid only half a ruble per month. They died by the thousands of disease, starvation, and exhaustion. No wheelbarrows were available, so they transported construction materials in their uplifted caftans.