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I've done this twice, meaning read a book relevant to the area before the cruise. (I don't mean a travel/guide book.) By reading a book, it adds a dimension while visiting the place.

 

For example, before we went for our British Isles cruise - I read "Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society." This was a fun "fiction" book that made me see Guernsey in a different light. "Bells of Nagasaki" for our Japan cruise.

 

So anybody has any suggestion for any fun or good book somehow related to St. Petersburg? Can be history, fiction, etc.

 

But if anybody has a good suggestion for a "light" history book to read, would appreciate that as well.

 

Thanks

A good light history book is St Petersburg, the story of an Imperial City/The Romanovs by John Lawrence. This covers the history that you need to know in a very concise fashion and is very easy to read. I think that it is still available.