Mapping St. Petersburg
Subtitle: Imperial Text and Cityshape
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691130323
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Comparative Literature; European History; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union
First sentence: THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY of imperial Petersburg, as recounted in numerous scholarly and popular studies, skips over a period-the second half of the nineteenth century, when so-called eclecticism held sway.