Cross St Petersburg, 1703-1825

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-3746-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

A collection of nine articles written by leading scholars in Britain, Ireland, Italy and the USA on various aspects of the city of St Petersburg during the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end of the reign of Alexander I. Cartography, architecture, social history and foreign perceptions are some of the subjects covered in these lively and informed essays.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cross, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Plates Acknowledgement Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Cross St Petersburg and Geographies of Modernity in Eighteenth-Century Russia; D.J.B.Shaw St Petersburg During the Reign of Anna Ivanovna: The Forbes/Maas Chart and the Evolution of the Early Mapping of the City; M.J.Bitter The English Embankment; A.Cross A Venice of the North: Italian Views of St Petersburg; M.di Salvo Compiling and Maintaining St Petersburg's 'Book of City Inhabitants': The 'Real' City Inhabitants; G.E.Munro Governing the City: St Petersburg and Catherine II's Reforms; J. M.Hartley Petersburg Actresses on and off Stage (1775-1825); W.Rosslyn Peter the Great's St Petersburg in the Works of Pavel Svin'in (1787-1839); L.Hughes Vreden sever: The Decembrists' Memories of the Peter-Paul Fortress, P.O'Meara Index

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL J BITTER Assistant Professor of History, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii
ANTHONY CROSS Professor of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
MARIA DI SALVO Professor of Slavic Philology, University of Milan, Italy
JANET M HARTLEY Senior Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science
LINDSEY HUGHES Professor of Russian History and Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
GEORGE E MUNRO Researcher, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
PATRICK J O'MEARA Associate Professor of Russian at Trinity College, University of Dublin
WENDY ROSSLYN Professor of Russian Literature, University of Nottingham
DENIS SHAW Reader in Russian Geography, University of Birmingham