Cities like Gdansk, which we tend to forget about, unfortunately, which is a very important port then and still now.

像格达斯克这样的城市,也就渐渐淡出了人们的视野,而其实,它在当时和现在都仍是,非常重要的港口

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Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

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