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Book Synopsis Historic Sites and Architecture of St. Petersburg Florida by : Ken Breslauer
Download or read book Historic Sites and Architecture of St. Petersburg Florida written by Ken Breslauer and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunshine City boasts a wide variety of historic sites, from the iconic Pier on St. Petersburgs beautiful waterfront to the legendary Don Cesar, the pink castle on St. Pete Beach. This guide takes you to both the famous landmarks and little known sites that make St. Petersburg a remarkable historic destination.
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
Book Synopsis St. Petersburg by : Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ
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.
Book Synopsis How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself by : Emily D. Johnson
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.
Book Synopsis Midnight in St. Petersburg by : Vanora Bennett
Download or read book Midnight in St. Petersburg written by Vanora Bennett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faberge jewels, the mysterious Rasputin, and a priceless violin: each plays a part in one young woman's fight for survival, and for love, in revolutionary Russia. St. Petersburg, 1911. Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her head. She loves her brooding cousin, Yasha, but he is wild, destructive, and devoted to revolution. Horace Wallick, an Englishman who makes precious Faberge creations, is older and promises security and respectability. And, like many others, she is drawn to the mysterious, charismatic figure beginning to make a name for himself in the city: Rasputin. As the rebellion descends into anarchy and bloodshed, a commission to repair a priceless Stadivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But what man will she choose to take with her? And is it already too late? A magical and passionate story steeped in history and intrigue, Vanora Bennett's Midnight in St. Petersburg is an extraordinary novel of music, politics, and the toll that revolution exacts on the human heart.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... by : British Museum (Natural History). Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis God Lives in St. Petersburg by : Tom Bissell
Download or read book God Lives in St. Petersburg written by Tom Bissell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Americans abroad in Central Asia find themselves pushed to their limits in these acclaimed, prize-winning stories by one of our most exciting and talented new authors. Combining bleak humor, ironic insight, deep compassion, and unflinching moral and ethical inquiry, Tom Bissell gives us a gripping collection that is both timeless and profoundly relevant to today’s complex world.
Download or read book The Gentle Axe written by R. N. Morris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society-a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find shocking. In the tradition of such first-rate historical novels such as The Alienist and The Dante Club, The Gentle Axe is atmospheric and tense storytelling from its dramatic opening to its stunning climax.
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Jeremy Howard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These information-packed guides offer savvy advice and the in-depth information that sophisticated travelers demand. Each guide features: Detailed background and site descriptions; mapped walking and driving tours; full-service sidebars with fascinating vignettes on history, culture, and contemporary life; a 60-page directory of visitor information, including notable hotels and restaurants, entertainment, and shopping; and foldout end flaps, printed with maps and quick reference information, that serve as handy bookmarks.
Book Synopsis Plants and Habitats of European Cities by : John G. Kelcey
Download or read book Plants and Habitats of European Cities written by John G. Kelcey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others. Discussion includes the natural and historical development of each city, local flora, the environmental impact of city growth, and environmental planning, design, and management.
Book Synopsis The Expository Times by : James Hastings
Download or read book The Expository Times written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Introduction to the Record of My Life Work in Entomology by : Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
Download or read book An Introduction to the Record of My Life Work in Entomology written by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the books and maps. [With] by : Geological society of London libr
Download or read book Catalogue of the books and maps. [With] written by Geological society of London libr and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environs of Saint Petersburg by : Pavel I︠A︡kovlevich Kann
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:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Map Room of the Royal Geographical Society by :
Download or read book Catalogue of Map Room of the Royal Geographical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saint Petersburg by : Natal'ja Popova
Download or read book Saint Petersburg written by Natal'ja Popova and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collected Papers by : Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
Download or read book Collected Papers written by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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