St. Petersburg: a Cultural History by Solomon Volkov - 1995

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New York. 1995. Free Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0028740521. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. 598 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Russia Saint Petersburg History Cities. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Long considered to be the mad dream of an imperious autocrat - the 'Venice of the North,' conceived in a setting of malarial swamps - St. Petersburg was built in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's gateway to the West. For almost 300 years this splendid city has survived the most extreme attempts of man and nature to extinguish it, from flood, famine, and disease to civil war, Stalinist purges, and the epic 900-day siege by Hitler's armies. It has even been renamed twice, and became St. Petersburg again only in 1991. Yet not only has it retained its special, almost mystical identity as the schizophrenic soul of modern Russia, but it remains one of the most beautiful and alluring cities in the world. Every great city creates its own image in literature and… Read More

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New York: The Free Press, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. A near fine copy, in a near fine dustjacket --two of the corners are bumped and so the dustjacket has two tiny tears. A cultural history of the famous St. Petersburg --artistic home of musicians like Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich; in literature, Akhmatova, Blok, Mandelstam, Nabokov, and Brodsky; in dance, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, and Balanchine, and many others. This is the first attempt at a comprehensive portrait of this lively, distinctive culture of the 20th century and the city that inspired it..

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