he becomes ‘Tsar of All Russias’, head of a colossal and multifarious empire
He populates his city by fiat, ordering merchants and nobles to relocate to the nascent metropolis
Peter the Great building St Petersburg (early 1700s)
Perhaps the glow at the horizon is neither of longer sunsets nor less sudden dawns, but is rather a protracted, constitutive ambiguity. Such crepuscularity we have all known, and will all know again.
And so went the great unlocking of the fortress desk, promontory from which my father spent his life surveying his family and his money.
Discovering the tiny interstices of the complex banking network that no one else thought much about.
