"Can't you turn down the heating?" Svetlana and Natasha ask the foreman. As winter fades, it is getting decidedly warm inside the plastic-sheeted scaffolding that covers the Peter and Paul Fortress cathedral. The women have to cover 200 square metres of dome with gold leaf in fiddly 10-centimetre squares, and they must finish this month: it will take four weeks just to dismantle the scaffolding and the full glory of the dome must be revealed by the end of May.
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