St Petersburg
Subtitle: shadows of the past
By: Catriona Kelly
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780300169188
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Description: Fragile, 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. This book shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St Petersburg's residents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moscow Station and Palace Bridge; title: Making a home on the Neva; title: "The Hermitage and my own front door"; title: Initiation into the working class; title: Eliseev and Aprashka; title: Theatre street; title: From Nord to Saigon; title: The twenty-seventh kilometre; title: Burying the city.