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Author : Evgenij Nevjakin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785852503886
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)
Download or read book St.-Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad written by Evgenij Nevjakin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Barnes Steveni
Publisher : London : G. Richards
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Petrograd, Past and Present written by W. Barnes Steveni and published by London : G. Richards. This book was released on 1915 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9783894340162
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book St.-Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. A. Kononenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785902671343
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The History of St. Petersburg-Petrograd, 1830-1918 written by E. A. Kononenko and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur L. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Arthur L. George and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg covers the city's political and social history, as well as its infinite contributions to scholarship, culture, and world politics.
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 : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777169
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Jonathan Miles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a window to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of Russia’s unique glory was also created here: its literature, music, dance, and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets.It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality. In St. Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this paradoxical and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when its fate hangs in the balance once more.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786730897
Total Pages : 432 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 432 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 : John Pinfold
Publisher : Bodleian Library
ISBN 13 : 9781851244607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Petrograd 1917 written by John Pinfold and published by Bodleian Library. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike. However, some of the most compelling and valuable accounts are those recorded by eyewitnesses, many of whom were foreign nationals caught in Petrograd at the time. Drawing from the Bodleian Library's rich collections, this book features extracts from letters, journals, diaries and memoirs written by a diverse cast of onlookers. Primarily British, the authors include Sydney Gibbes, English tutor to the royal children, Bertie Stopford, an antiques dealer who smuggled the Vladimir tiara and other Romanov jewels into the UK, and the private secretary to Lord Milner in the British War Cabinet. Contrasting with these are a memoir by Stinton Jones, an engineer who found himself sharing a train compartment with Rasputin, a newspaper report by governess Janet Jeffrey who survived a violent confrontation with the Red Army, and letters home from Labour politician, Arthur Henderson. Accompanied by seventy contemporary illustrations, these first-hand accounts are put into context with introductory notes, giving a fascinating insight into the tumultuous year of 1917.
Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9781250164414
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Caught in the Revolution written by Helen Rappaport and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil – felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, offices and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows. Among this disparate group were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, bankers, governesses, volunteer nurses and expatriate socialites. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women’s Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva. Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a "red madhouse."
Author : Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317476549
Total Pages : 1624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Archives in Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg written by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in Russian sources for topics in diplomatic, military, and church history; art; dance; film; literature; science; ethnolography; and geography. The first part lists general bibliographies of relevant reference literature, directories, bibliographic works, and specialized subject-related sources. In the following sections of the directory, archival listings are grouped in institutional categories. Coverage includes federal, ministerial, agency, presidential, local, university, Academy of Sciences, organizational, library, and museum holdings. Individual entries include the name of the repository (in Russian and English), basic information on location, staffing, institutional history, holdings, access, and finding aids. More comprehensive and up-to-date than the 1997 Russian Version, this edition includes Web-site information, dozens of additional repositories, several hundred more bibliographical entries, coverage of reorganization issues, four indexes, and a glossary.
Author : Katerina Clark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674663367
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution written by Katerina Clark and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most creative periods of Russian culture and the most energized period of the Revolution coincided in 1913-1931. Clark focuses on the complex negotiations among the environment of a revolution, the utopian striving of politicians and intellectuals, the local culture system, and the arena of contemporary European and American culture.
Author : S. A. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521316187
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Red Petrograd written by S. A. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with problem of workers' control in Russia
Author : Ian Kenneth Lilly
Publisher : Astra Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moscow and Petersburg written by Ian Kenneth Lilly and published by Astra Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 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.
Author : Philip Gelatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Petrograd written by Philip Gelatt and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1916. The fate of millions of people hangs in the balance, and in Russia's capital city of Petrograd, corruption rules the day and conspiracy rules the night. But to British intelligence officer Cleary, the Petrograd post is all about relationships and carousing. He drinks and parties with the rich and powerful; he flirts and cavorts with workers and countrymen. His life is all late, drunken nights, bleary-eyed mornings, and the occasional report back to London. However, the city is like a tinder box ready to be set ablaze, and there are dark clouds on the horizon for Cleary. Rumors circulate that the Tsarina's most trusted advisor is counseling the Tsar to make peace with Germany. Cleary, to his horror, is tasked with ending the influence of that advisor. A man famous for his acts of debauchery; for his heresy and his power: Gregori Rasputin. And so, the stage is set for one of the most infamous and strangest assassinations of all time, and a world that would never be the same.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
