St. Petersburg : shadows of the past / Catriona Kelly.

Main entry:

Kelly, Catriona, author.

Title & Author:

St. Petersburg : shadows of the past / Catriona Kelly.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Description:

xvi, 464 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Moscow Station and Palace Bridge -- Making a home on the Neva -- "The Hermitage and my own front door" : city spaces -- Initiation into the working class -- Eliseev and Aprashka -- Theatre street -- From Nord to Saigon -- The twenty-seventh kilometre -- The last journey -- Afterword.-

Summary:

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. This book shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St Petersburg's residents.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780300169188 (alk. paper)
0300169183 (alk. paper)
9780300219401
0300219407

Subject:

Travel.
Historia.
Kulturhistoria.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) Description and travel.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) History.
Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) Histoire.
Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg.
Sankt Petersburg
Ryssland Sankt Petersburg.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Saint Petersburg : shadows of the past

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285534
Call No.: BIB 225176
Status: Available

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