A panoramic history of the city published in celebration of its tercentennial. George focuses on the cultural and intellectual life of St. Petersburg and its role as Russia's portal to Europe and the West. Opening with the building of the city by Peter the Great, he devotes chapters to individual Tsars and Tsarinas, Pushkin and Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, the Revolution, World War I, Seige of Leningrad siege, Soviet-era, and the present.  (RUS248, $35.00)