沙俄

tā bǐ xià de shèng bǐ dé bǎo shì shā é zhuān zhì shè huì shēng huó de suō yǐng

他笔下的圣彼得堡是沙俄专制社会生活的缩影。

The St. Petersburg written by Gogol is the epitome of social life under the dictatorship of Czar.