Mapping St. Petersburg
Subtitle: Imperial Text and Cityshape
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691113494
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Literary studies: general; Saint Petersburg (Russia); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russia; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Comparative Literature; European History; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Intellectual life; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; In literature
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.