Saint PetersburgFrom Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried to wipe off the map. Built by slave labour in the early years of the eighteenth century, Saint Petersburg was Peter the Great's so called 'window on to Europe', a city that would outdo all of Europe in its splendour. But a window works both ways, and as bestselling historian Sinclair McKay writes, St Petersburg has always been a city that has drawn Westerners who wanted to see into