Before the break-up of the USSR, a tale was often told of
two old men sitting on a bench in front of the Winter Palace in
Russia's second city. "Where were you born?" asks the first, "St.
Petersburg," the second replies. "Where did you grow up?"
"Petrograd." "Where do you live now?" "Leningrad." "Where would you
like to live?" "St Petersburg."
Lorenzo Weisman, the outgoing head...
