How St. Petersburg learned to study itself
Subtitle: the Russian idea of kraevedenie
By: Emily D. Johnson.
Series: Studies of the Harriman Institute
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Local history -- Study and teaching -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Study and teaching -- History.; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Historiography -- History.; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Civilization.
Other titles: How Saint Petersburg learned to study itself
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Ways of knowing; title: Russian local studies as an identity discipline; title: The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century tradition; title: The art journals of the Silver Age, St. Petersburg preservationism, and the guidebook; title: Old Petersburg after the Revolution; title: The excursion movement and excursion methodology; title: Excursion primers and literary tours; title: Kraevedenie in St. Petersburg; title: Literary kraevedenie.