Maas, but instead a 150-year-old Russian novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Published in 1848, White Nights is set in St. Petersburg, Russia during the summer, when the evenings are known as “white ...

But in St. Petersburg during “white nights”—typically from the second week of June through the first week of July—that magical dusky hour never fades to black and the city is held in a ...