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Author : Johann Georg Kohl
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Panorama of St. Petersburg written by Johann Georg Kohl and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valentin; Chabovski Gueorgui; Chlepkine Baranowski (Evgueni)
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Panorama Saint Petersburg written by Valentin; Chabovski Gueorgui; Chlepkine Baranowski (Evgueni) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larissa Salmina-Haskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854440464
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Panoramic Views of St. Petersburg from 1716-1835 written by Larissa Salmina-Haskell and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford possesses one of the best collections, outside Russia, of panoramic prints of St Petersburg, made between 1716 and 1835, recording the growth of the city from its foundation in 1703 on the banks of the Neva to its emergence in the early 19th century as one of the most beautiful cityscapes in Europe. The collection includes the wonderful series of 16 hand-coloured views made by the Swedish artist, Benamin Paterssen.
Author : A. Cross
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140393746X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book St Petersburg, 1703-1825 written by A. Cross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786730897
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Sunlight at Midnight written by Bruce Lincoln and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when, in the spring of 1703, he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500 miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather, bad water, and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. Bathed in sunlight at midnight in the summer, it brooded in darkness at noon in the winter, and its canals froze solid at least five months out of every year. Yet to the Tsar, the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a "paradise." His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris, and Vienna than to Russia's far-off eastern lands, it quickly became the political, cultural, and economic center of an empire that stretched across more than a dozen time zones and over three continents. In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush shoulders with tsars, and builders, soldiers, and statesmen share pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history of it and the nation it represents.
Author : Johann Georg Kohl
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358769610
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Panorama of St. Petersburg, by J.G. Kohl written by Johann Georg Kohl and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Emily D. Johnson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271028726
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself written by Emily D. Johnson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnson traces the history of kraevedenie, showing how St. Petersburg-based scholars and institutions have played a central role in the evolution of the discipline. Distinguished from obvious Western equivalents such as cultural geography and the German Heimatkunde by both its dramatic history and unique social significance, kraevedenie has, for close to a hundred years, served as a key forum for expressing concepts of regional and national identity within Russian culture."--Jacket.
Author : Martin Knoll
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981599
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained written by Martin Knoll and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.
Author : Pieter N. Holtrop
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004162607
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Foreign Churches in St. Petersburg and Their Archives written by Pieter N. Holtrop and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers studies on the history of foreign churches in St. Petersburg since the founding of the city in 1703 till the Revolution in 1917. Moreover, archivists give detailed overviews and insights in the archives concerned in question.
Author : Julie A. Buckler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187614
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Mapping St. Petersburg written by Julie A. Buckler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of the world's most treasured literary masterpieces. What they overlook is the vast uncharted territory in between. In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system--a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it. By favoring noncanonical works and "underdescribed spaces," Buckler seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St. Petersburg--with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing two traditional albeit opposing perspectives--to offer an off-center view of a richer, less familiar urban landscape. She views this grand city, the product of Peter the Great's ambitious vision, not only as a geographical entity but also as a network of genres that carries historical and cultural meaning. We discover the busy, messy "middle ground" of this hybrid city through an intricate web of descriptions in literary works; nonfiction writings such as sketches, feuilletons, memoirs, letters, essays, criticism; and urban legends, lore, songs, and social practices--all of which add character and depth to this refurbished imperial city.
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inspel written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Kasinec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on Slavic Collections, Bibliography & Bookculture, 1984-2008 written by Edward Kasinec and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150175758X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Socialist Churches written by Catriona Kelly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia, legislation on the separation of church and state in early 1918 marginalized religious faith and raised pressing questions about what was to be done with church buildings. While associated with suspect beliefs, they were also regarded as structures with potential practical uses, and some were considered works of art. This engaging study draws on religious anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and history to explore the fate of these "socialist churches," showing how attitudes and practices related to them were shaped both by laws on the preservation of monuments and anti-religious measures. Advocates of preservation, while sincere in their desire to save the buildings, were indifferent, if not hostile, to their religious purpose. Believers, on the other hand, regarded preservation laws as irritants, except when they provided leverage for use of the buildings by church communities. The situation was eased by the growing rapprochement of the Orthodox Church and Soviet state organizations after 1943, but not fully resolved until the Soviet Union fell apart. Based on abundant archival documentation, Catriona Kelly's powerful narrative portrays the human tragedies and compromises, but also the remarkable achievements, of those who fought to preserve these important buildings over the course of seven decades of state atheism. Socialist Churches will appeal to specialists, students, and general readers interested in church history, the history of architecture, and Russian art, history, and cultural studies.
Author : Simon Franklin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178374376X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Information and Empire written by Simon Franklin and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of information and communications.
Author : Susan McCaffray
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092473
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Winter Palace and the People written by Susan McCaffray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.
Author : Solomon Volkov
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781856193375
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (933 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Solomon Volkov and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon Volkov has written the definitive cultural biography of St. Petersburg. This book is a panorama of modern Russian history that puts St. Petersburg on the map alongside the other great centres of 20th century art, like Vienna, Paris & Berlin
Author : Harry Gardner Cutler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Panorama of Nations written by Harry Gardner Cutler and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
