Ten things you didn't know about Russia

[ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET]

At 02:04 AM 3/19/2008, you wrote:
>The Russian Empire (just like today's Russian Federation) was a multi-ethnic
>and multi-religious country. A synagogue, Protestant and Catholic churches
>did not make Tsarskoe Selo "international" - native subjects of the Empire
>were probably the people who mainly attended them.
>
>Felix Corley

No doubt...
Maybe I should have said "multi-national".  But wasn't 19th Cent. 
Russia called
in the west "prisonhouse of nations"?
Jules Levin





>-----Original Message-----
>
>I read somewhere that Tsarskoe Selo, around the turn of the last century,
>was the first fully electrified city in the world.  It was a
>middle-class suburb
>with a commuter train taking people into St Pete for white collar jobs.
>It was international in character, with a synagogue, protestant churches,
>and
>a Catholic church, I believe.
>
>Jules Levin

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