History Runs Deep In Kalmar
…. From here indeed
Shall we strike terror in the Swede;
And here a city, by our labor
Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;
Thus declared Pushkin’s character in The Bronze Horseman, written in 1833 about the founding of the city of St. Petersburg by Peter the Great in 1703. The quote is indicative of the degree of suspicion [...]



