[POST]Industrial Urals: San-Donato. One story for two

Somehow it worked, Demidov and Matilda got married, and he gave this name to the Russian village to perpetuate the name that brought him luck. This is what local legend tells us, however, there's no prove whether it's true or not.

The title was not admitted in Russia. When Nicholas the First knew that Demidov became prince in Italy he suggested him to stay prince there. What happens in San-Donato stays in San-Donato.

In the Soviet times the village was renamed in a Soviet manner : "Mine named after the 3d International" (The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.)

In this photo project the author uses photos from Russian village San-Donato and the Italian San-Donato (today known as Protalino), made with the help of Google maps.

Today San-Donato is is a railway station and one of the remote districts of Nizhniy Tagil. 

In 1831 local manufacturer Nikolay Demidov had bought a tiny principality San-Donato near Florence, Italy, where he built a luxurious villa.

But let's go back to the mid 19th century, when the Italian San-Donato shared its name with a railway station somewhere in the Urals.