| A Traveller's Companion to St. Petersburg Contributor(s): Kelly, Laurence (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566564921 ISBN-13: 9781566564922 Publisher: Interlink Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 Annotation: With a vivid selection of biographies, novels, letters and memoirs traces the story of St. Petersburg, and shows how literature and art flowered in this turbulent, fascinating place. Illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Russia - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 914.7 |
| Series: Traveller's Companion To... |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.64 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
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| Publisher Description: Large as life impressions of the noble Tsarist city A vivid selection from biographies, novels, letters, poems, diaries, and memoirs traces the story of St. Petersburg from earliest times. Through these pieces, we can observe the city's foundation by Peter the Great on the marshy shores of the gulf of Finland, see how literature and the other arts flowered so strongly during the nineteenth century, and observe the often violent turning points of its later history. First hand accounts tell of the 1825 Decembrists standing in the snow in Senate Square, refusing to accept Nicholas I as Tsar, being shot down where they stood; of the imprisonment of Dostoevksy and the duel that killed Pushkin; of the last moments of the mad Emperor Paul, confronting his assassins barefoot in a cotton nightcap; of the storming of the Winter Palace by the crowd in 1917. Many more historic scenes are witnessed by such diverse characters as Tolstoy, Catherine the Great, and a voluble maidservant of Irish descent. Designed for on-the-spot use by visitors to the city, and as a highly readable anthology for the armchair traveller, this imaginative guide includes maps, engravings, and notes on history, art, architecture, and everyday city life. |