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9781403915702

St. Petersburg, 1703-1825

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    9781403915702

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    1403915709

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-10-24
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Anthony Cross is at University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Plates vii
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgements x
Notes on the Contributors xi
Introduction 1(5)
Anthony Cross
1 St Petersburg and Geographies of Modernity in Eighteenth-Century Russia 6(24)
Denis J.B. Shaw
2 St Petersburg during the Reign of Anna Ivanovna: The Forbes/Maas Chart and the Evolution of the Early Mapping of the City 30(20)
Michael J. Bitter
3 The English Embankment 50(21)
Anthony Cross
4 A Venice of the North? Italian Views of St Petersburg 71(9)
Maria Di Salvo
5 Compiling and Maintaining St Petersburg's 'Book of City Inhabitants': The 'Real' City Inhabitants 80(19)
George E. Munro
6 Governing the City: St Petersburg and Catherine II's Reforms 99(20)
Janet M. Hartley
7 Petersburg Actresses On and Off Stage (1775-1825) 119(29)
Wendy Rosslyn
8 Peter the Great's St Petersburg in the Works of Pavel Svin'in (1787-1839) 148(17)
Lindsey Hughes
9 Vreden sever: The Decembrists' Memories of the Peter-Paul Fortress 165(25)
Patrick O'Meara
Index 190

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