Our story begins at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg,Russia on December eighteenth,eighteen ninety-two.

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Of course, it gets dark in the winter in St. Petersburg about noon.

不过,冬天的圣彼得堡中午之后就天黑了

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When he is gone from Moscow and then St. Petersburg, there was always this tendency to have these sort of cabales to get together and sort of plot.

当他离开莫斯科和圣彼得堡外出时,就会有人秘密集会,结党营私,秘谋造反

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In later years Moscow became their secondary base, after Peter the Great founded his new capital St Petersburg.

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In 1917, when Natalie was 16, the Russian revolution was ignited in nearby St Petersburg.

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According to Pushkin himself, life began when he joined the Lyceum school in St Petersburg.

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