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Neva water near the Nevskaya Curtain

...Blocked Neva
She walked back, angry, stormy,
And flooded the islands,
...
Fleeed to the underground cellars,
Canals rushed to the bars,
And Petropol rose up like a newt,
Up to the waist in water.

Alexander Pushkin, 'The Bronze Horseman'

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