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Author : Natalʹi︠a︡ Popova
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ISBN 13 : 9785938932845
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Saint Petersburg and Its Environs written by Natalʹi︠a︡ Popova and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleksandr Davidovich Margolis
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ISBN 13 : 9785888100592
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Saint Petersburg and Its Environs written by Aleksandr Davidovich Margolis and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otto Keller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg and Its Environs written by Otto Keller and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9785938936324
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Saint Petersburg and Its Environs written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saint Petersburg And Its Environs written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Андрей Ефимович Мартынов
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Views of St. Petersburg and Its Environs written by Андрей Ефимович Мартынов and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Margolis
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ISBN 13 : 9785888100158
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Saint Petersburg and Its Environs written by Alexander Margolis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yevgeny Anisimov
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ISBN 13 : 9785905985423
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Saint Petersburg and its environs written by Yevgeny Anisimov and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margarita Fedorovna Alʹbedilʹ
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Saint Petersburg & Its Environs written by Margarita Fedorovna Alʹbedilʹ and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ
Publisher : Abbeville Press
ISBN 13 : 0789202174
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before becoming a city, St. Petersburg was a utopian vision in the mind of its founder, Peter the Great. Conceived by him as Russia's "window to the West," it evolved into a remarkably harmonious assemblage of baroque, rococo, neoclassical, and art nouveau buildings that reflect his taste and that of his successors, including Anna I, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and Paul I. Crisscrossed by rivers and canals, this "Venice of the North," as Goethe dubbed it, is of unique beauty. Never before has that beauty been captured as eloquently as on the pages of this sumptuous volume. From the stately mansions lining the fabled Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent palaces of the tsars on the outskirts of the city, including Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, and Pavlovsk, photographer Alexander Orloff's portrait of St. Petersburg does full justice to the vision of its founder and namesake. The text, by art historian Dmitri Shvidkovsky, chronicles the history of the city's planning and construction from Peter the Great's time to the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II. Anyone who has ever visited--or dreamed of visiting--the city of "white nights" will find St. Petersburg irresistible.
Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198590
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book St Petersburg written by Catriona Kelly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city’s pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its recent past./divDIV /divDIVIn this beautifully illustrated and highly original book, Catriona Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St. Petersburg’s residents. Weaving together oral history, personal observation, literary and artistic texts, journalism, and archival materials, she traces the at times paradoxical feelings of anxiety and pride that were inspired by living in the city, both when it was socialist Leningrad, and now. Ranging from rubbish dumps to promenades, from the city’s glamorous center to its grimy outskirts, this ambitious book offers a compelling and always unexpected panorama of an extraordinary and elusive place./div
Author : Otto KELLER (of St. Petersburg.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg and Its Environs, Finland, Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Warsaw, Riga, a Tour on the Volga, the Crimea and the Caucasus ... With Plans, Etc written by Otto KELLER (of St. Petersburg.) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pavel I︠A︡kovlevich Kann
Publisher : Bonechi
ISBN 13 : 9788880292586
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Environs of Saint Petersburg written by Pavel I︠A︡kovlevich Kann and published by Bonechi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily D. Johnson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271030372
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 2006-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bookshops of present-day St. Petersburg, guidebooks abound. Both modern descriptions of Russia’s old imperial capital and lavish new editions of pre-Revolutionary texts sell well, primarily attracting an audience of local residents. Why do Russians read one- and two-hundred-year-old guidebooks to a city they already know well? In How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself, Emily Johnson traces the Russian fascination with local guides to the idea of kraevedenie. Kraevedenie (local studies) is a disciplinary tradition that in Russia dates back to the early twentieth century. Practitioners of kraevedenie investigate local areas, study the ways human society and the environment affect each other, and decipher the semiotics of space. They deconstruct urban myths, analyze the conventions governing the depiction of specific regions and towns in works of art and literature, and dissect both outsider and insider perceptions of local population groups. Practitioners of kraevedenie helped develop and popularize the Russian guidebook as a literary form. 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. How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself is published in collaboration with the Harriman Institute at Columbia University as part of its Studies of the Harriman Institute series.
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ISBN 13 : 9785900530406
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Environs of Saint Petersburg written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otto Keller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (422 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg and Its Environs written by Otto Keller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George E. Munro
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838641460
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)
Download or read book The Most Intentional City written by George E. Munro and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines a critical phase in the city's history. Founded by Peter the Great a mere sixty years before Catherine II ascended Russia's throne, St. Petersburg became one of the leading economic and political centers of Europe during her reign. Catherine lavished planning on St. Petersburg. Paradoxically, the city's growth, unprecedented in Europe to that date for such a short span of time, stemmed as much from natural factors as from the government's activity, for planning at times ran counter to natural growth. St. Petersburg also presented a challenge to Russia's legal estate order, inadequate for the city's dynamic social and economic nexus. Moscow was proverbially an overgrown village. St. Petersburg was undeniably a city." "Previous books on St. Petersburg have focused on its foundation and earliest years, or on the nineteenth century, when its cultural dominance within Russia was well established, or on the twentieth century, when the city was cradle to revolutions and subsequently lost its role as capital to Moscow. Catherine's reign largely has been overlooked, despite the fact that much of the city's image in Russian culture was established in that epoch. The city assumed its morphological shape primarily during Catherine's reign. Land-use patterns set in that era continue to characterize the city. A city resident of the late eighteenth century would know his or her way around the city today." "The Most Intentional City is based extensively on heretofore unused archival sources from central archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow as well as regional archives and manuscript collections. These are flavored with published accounts by Russians as well as foreign residents and visitors from a number of countries, including Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Italy, and various German states. The rich secondary literature, especially that produced by Russian and Soviet scholars, adds to the interpretation." "It is said that the first wife of Peter the Great once placed a curse on Peter's new city: "May Petersburg be empty!" The city's detractors over the centuries have enumerated many reasons why the city never should have been established and why it should not have grown. Yet grow it did. No other city in the world situated so far north (almost on the sixtieth parallel) is more than a fifth its size. In Catherine's reign the city assumed the vitality, the social and economic strength, the identity in myth and legend, that assured that the curse pronounced against it would remain unfulfilled. The Most Intentional City reveals just how it all took place."--BOOK JACKET.
