Sunlight at Midnight
Subtitle: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
By: W. Bruce Lincoln.
Contributors: Mary Lincoln (Acknowledgements)
Edition: First
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History.
First sentence: FROM THE SOUTHERN TIP OF LAKE LADOGA, the largest lake in all of Europe, the Neva River flows forty-one miles west to the sea.
Description: History of St Petersburg.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. N.B. There is evidence that *at least some* copies of this edition were released and sold with untrimmed (deckled) fore edges.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; title: PART ONE: Window on the West (1703-1796); label: 1
title: The Builders
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: Lords of the Realm
pagenum: 53; label: 3
title: The Shadow of the Winter Palace
pagenum: 80; title: PART TWO: Imperial Colossus (1796-1855); label: 4
title: The Hub of Empire
pagenum: 105; label: 5
title: Nevskii Prospekt
pagenum: 125; title: PART THREE: Cradle of Revolution (1856-1941); label: 6
title: Modernity's Challenge
pagenum: 149; label: 7
title: The Peter and Paul Fortress
pagenum: 171; label: 8
title: On the Eve
pagenum: 196; label: 9
title: Comrades
pagenum: 228; title: PART FOUR: "Hero City" (1941-1991); label: 10
title: Nine Hundred Days
pagenum: 268; label: 11
title: Together in Step
pagenum: 309; label: 12
title: Past and Present
pagenum: 345; title: Notes
pagenum: 367; title: Index
pagenum: 405