St. Petersburg : Russia's window to the future--the first three centuries /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, [Md.] :
Taylor Trade Publishing,
2003.
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| Edition: | 1st Taylor Trade Publishing ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A giant's vision : a new national life
- Building Peter's paradise
- Life in Peter's paradise
- Decline and rebirth
- Looking like Europe : Elizabeth's Petersburg
- Thinking like Europe : the Petersburg of Catherine II
- Petersburg under the errant knight
- Crossroads : Alexander I and the Decembrist rebellion
- Pushkin's St. Petersburg, imperial St. Petersburg
- Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg
- From world of art to apocalypse
- Cradle of revolution and despair
- Becoming Leningrad : the revenge of Muscovy
- Hero city
- Rocking the cradle
- The revenge of St. Petersburg.