- Published: 24 June 2025
- ISBN: 9780241741313
- Imprint: Viking Non Fiction
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $55.00
Saint Petersburg
Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler

















- Published: 24 June 2025
- ISBN: 9780241741313
- Imprint: Viking Non Fiction
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $55.00
Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past
Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44
The story of the siege of Leningrad is one of the great epics of modern history. It has been told many times before, but never in such an engrossing, moving, often horrifying but also uplifting way
Brendan Simms, author of Hitler
Sinclair McKay has followed up his spellbinding history of Berlin with another tour de force. Saint Petersburg is a riveting account of a beautiful city with a dark soul. Interlaced between descriptions of incredible beauty and decay are such unforgettable tales of cruelty and courage as to make a reader weep or forget to breathe. McKay's magisterial history of Peter the Great’s monumental gift to Russia will become a classic in its own right
Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana
McKay is a gifted writer; his prose has the cadence, tone and power of a Shostakovich symphony. Horror is majestically conveyed
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
Sinclair McKay has followed up his spellbinding history of Berlin with another tour de force. Saint Petersburg is a riveting account of a beautiful city with a dark soul. Interlaced between descriptions of incredible beauty and decay are such unforgettable tales of cruelty and courage as to make a reader weep or forget to breathe. McKay's magisterial history of Peter the Great’s monumental gift to Russia will become a classic in its own right
Amanda Forman, author of Georgiana