Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ла́дожское о́зеро, Ladozhskoye ozero; or Russian: Ла́дога, Ladoga; ; Finnish: Laatokka ; Karelian: Luadogu) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia just outside the outskirts of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe, and the 14th largest lake by area in the world.
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“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
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