Please click this for lunch arrangements Rosamund Bartlett completed her doctorate at Oxford and is an authority on the cultural history of Russia.  She will be talking to us about how Peter the Great started planning and building this sumptuous city in the 18th century and the remarkable transformations it went through between the 18th and 20th centuries under the various leaders including the Empress Elizabeth, Catherine the Great, Tsar Alexander I and the last Romanov Tsar.   We will…