The recipient of a PhD in government from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, David Dessler is an award-winning professor who was with the College of William & Mary for more than three decades. Versed in international politics, David Dessler recently traveled to Europe and stayed at the Angleterre Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The sister hotel of the Astoria, the Angleterre Hotel is one of the oldest and most iconic hotels in St. Petersburg. The current building, located near St. Isaac's Cathedral, has been in place since 1991 and adopted its present name in 1999, but has a history dating back to the 1840s, when it was a three-story hotel called Napoleon's. During its early years, the hotel attracted many famous poets, such as Sergey Esenin, who was found dead in his room in 1925. It's also been rumored that Leo Trotsky stayed at the hotel.
