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St Petersburg
Shadows of the Past
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2013.
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world's most alluring cities--a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city's pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its recent past. In this beautifully illustrated and highly original book, Catriona Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St. Petersburg's residents. Weaving together oral history, personal observation, literary and artistic texts, journalism, and archival materials, she traces the at times paradoxical feelings of anxiety and pride that were inspired by living in the city, both when it was socialist Leningrad, and now. Ranging from rubbish dumps to promenades, from the city's glamorous center to its grimy outskirts, this ambitious book offers a compelling and always unexpected panorama of an extraordinary and elusive place.
Contents:
Moscow Station and Palace Bridge -- Making a home on the Neva -- "The Hermitage and my own front door" -- Initiation into the working class -- Eliseev and Aprashka -- Theatre street -- From Nord to Saigon -- The twenty-seventh kilometre -- Burying the city.
Subjects:
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Description and travel.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Description and travel.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History.
ISBN:
9780300169188 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Europe Russia Kel | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.