Could have sworn I wrote “sear”, but I have been thinking about D & D a lot these days, so maybe I’ve seers on the brain…
One of the MST 3K episodes I used to have on all the time in the background while I was doing homework in high school was the one with the Kalevala movie adaptation The Day The Earth Froze, which prominently featured Lemminkainen tilling a field of snakes, which worked its way into tilling a Frozen field of snakes, with a bear as your only companion and helpmate, which is apparently, in my head, the Russian equivalent…
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Yeah, pretty much every time Peter faced total defeat it was because he got over-excited about grabbing a new port. The Great Northern War, which ended well, AFTER 25 years of combat and almost total annihilation, was largely a port war. The 1710 Russo-Turkish War, which ended in disaster, was a war to protect previously stolen ports that ended up in losing him those very ports.
And St. Petersburg DOES catch on fire or flood rather a lot….
– Count Dolby von Luckner
