A collection of nine articles written by leading scholars in Britain, Ireland, Italy and the USA on various aspects of the city of St Petersburg during the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end...
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A collection of nine articles written by leading scholars in Britain, Ireland, Italy and the USA on various aspects of the city of St Petersburg during the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end of the reign of Alexander I. Cartography, architecture, social history and foreign perceptions are some of the subjects covered in these lively and informed essays
Electronic reproduction. UK : MyiLibrary, 2006 Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to MIL affiliated
Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Plates; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 St Petersburg and Geographies of Modernity in Eighteenth-Century Russia; 2 St Petersburg during the Reign of Anna Ivanovna: The Forbes/ Maas Chart and the Evolution of the Early Mapping of the City; 3 The English Embankment; 4 A Venice of the North? Italian Views of St Petersburg; 5 Compiling and Maintaining St Petersburg's Book of City Inhabitants': The Real' City Inhabitants; 6 Governing the City: St Petersburg and Catherine II's Reforms
7 Petersburg Actresses On and Off Stage (1775…1825)8 Peter the Great's St Petersburg in the Works of Pavel Svin'in (1787…1839); 9 Vreden sever: The Decembrists' Memories of the Peter-Paul Fortress; Index
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