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 was this creation of Peter's. His doubts were based on solid economic grounds, but now Petrograd is the first commercial and industrial city of the Empire, with great and varied industries, and with an immense political, social, and economic past which no power can blot out from Russian life.

I have dwelt on the colonial character of Russian economic development. Russian economic culture,