St. Petersburg, the Russian metropolis wanted by Tsar Peter the Great, turns three hundred years old. This is underlined by a wide range proposed by San Marino, on sale from 7 June. Six stamps that propose places and characters of what is now the second national center after Moscow.

“Over the course of these centuries – they recall from Mount Titano – the city changed its name twice more: it became” Petrograd “at the beginning of the First World War to underline its Russian origin and distance itself from the Germans, then after Lenin’s death it became Leningrad in honor of the revolution leader of 1917 and founder of the Soviet Union ”; only in 1991, with the crisis of the USSR, did it return to its original name.

Across the board the images identified, some of which speak almost unexpectedly Italian:

– a glimpse of the bridge that crosses the Winter Canal with, in the background, the Fortress and the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, designed by Domenico Trezzini between 1712 and 1733 (€ 0.15 cut);

– the architect of Florentine origins Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1700–1771) who worked exclusively on the construction of the new city and one of his works, the “Peterhof” (0.26 euros);

– a view from the Trinity Bridge (0.36 euros), located on the Neva river;

– the writer Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin, author, among other things, of the tragedy “Boris Godunov” (€ 0.41);

– Catherine II, who reigned for a few years and managed to bring Russia to the rank of a great European power (0.77 euros);

– Tsar Peter I the Great himself (1.55 euros).