How St. Petersburg learned to study itself : the Russian idea of kraevedenie /
Johnson, Emily D.,1966-
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-287) and index.
Introduction : Ways of knowing--Russian local studies as an identity discipline -- The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century tradition -- The art journals of the Silver Age, St. Petersburg preservationism, and the guidebook -- Old Petersburg after the Revolution -- The excursion movement and excursion methodology -- Excursion primers and literary tours -- Kraevedenie in St. Petersburg -- Literary kraevedenie.
Local history