The desk
Contact the desk
Write to the desk about corrections, provenance questions or documentation: a single address, read by the editors of The St. Petersburger.
One address reaches the desk: contact@stpetersburger.com. It is read by the same editors who prepare the guides, so a correction about a Semyonov rose or a Faberge date lands in the right hands without an intermediary.
What readers write about
Most mail concerns recognition: a photograph of a mark, a date on a base, a family story about a shawl or a samovar. The desk cannot value or authenticate objects by mail, and it says so plainly, but documented corrections to published guides are welcome and are answered. Provenance notes, workshop records and museum references help the whole readership when they lead to a revision.
What to include
A short description of the piece, the guide concerned, and the passage you believe is wrong or incomplete. Sources help: a catalogue number, a museum page, a workshop archive. The desk answers substantive mail and passes the rest, and it does not send commercial replies, because there is nothing to sell.
For the rules that govern replies, revisions and outside contributions, see the editorial policy; for how mail is stored, the privacy page states the essentials.