Saint Petersburg The North Capital Of Russia
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Saint Petersburg The North Capital Of Russia
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Author : Andrey Vlasov
language : en
Publisher: Photravel
Release Date : 2021-08-12
Saint Petersburg The North Capital Of Russia written by Andrey Vlasov and has been published by Photravel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with categories.
Saint Petersburg is one of the most original and unique cities not just in Russia but throughout the world. Founded on territory of scattered villages and settlements on wetland, went through a lot of difficulties, destructions and overcame unbelievable obstacles during the existence of the city, Saint Petersburg has become a jewel of Russia, an architectural masterpiece and one of the most beautiful and romantic places on the Earth. St Petersburg is not opened immediately to everyone - you need to know it better, to explore and come back here again. That's why I invite you to spend a few days in this beautiful city, to get acquainted with its beauties and try to touch its mystery.
Picturesque Journey From The Northern Capital To The Ancient Capital
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Picturesque Journey From The Northern Capital To The Ancient Capital written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Moscow (Russia) categories.
Petersburg Petersburg
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Author : Olga Matich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2010-11-18
Petersburg Petersburg written by Olga Matich and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-18 with History categories.
Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the aristocratic center to the gritty outskirts. While Tsar Peter the Great planned the streetscapes of Russia’s northern capital as a contrast to the muddy and crooked streets of Moscow, Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg (1916), a cornerstone of Russian modernism and the culmination of the “Petersburg myth” in Russian culture, takes issue with the city’s premeditated and supposedly rational character in the early twentieth century. “Petersburg”/Petersburg studies the book and the city against and through each other. It begins with new readings of the novel—as a detective story inspired by bomb-throwing terrorists, as a representation of the aversive emotion of disgust, and as a painterly avant-garde text—stressing the novel’s phantasmagoric and apocalyptic vision of the city. Taking a cue from Petersburg’s narrator, the rest of this volume (and the companion Web site, stpetersburg.berkeley.edu/) explores the city from vantage points that have not been considered before—from its streetcars and iconic art-nouveau office buildings to the slaughterhouse on the city fringes. From poetry and terrorist memoirs, photographs and artwork, maps and guidebooks of that period, the city emerges as a living organism, a dreamworld in flux, and a junction of modernity and modernism.
Acquaintance To St Petersburg Photostory About The Great City
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Author : Valery Pikulev
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2018-11-02
Acquaintance To St Petersburg Photostory About The Great City written by Valery Pikulev and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with Fiction categories.
The documentary and art photostory about St. Petersburg illustrated more than two tens color photos, is, on – to a being, peculiar “business card” at the first acquaintance to The Great City. It acquaints the reader not only with man-made beauty of the Northern Capital, but also opens very difficult history of emergence of the city, its value for Russia and, – the main thing! – opens wide soul of the Great Child of Pyotr.
St Petersburg
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Author : George Dobson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-26
St Petersburg written by George Dobson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with History categories.
Excerpt from St. Petersburg The Author, Mr. G. Dobson, who was for many years correspondent of the Times in St. Petersburg, aims at giving as complete an account of the Russian capital as could possibly be contained within the comparatively small compass of the present volume. The following chapters accordingly include the history of the origin of St. Petersburg, an explanation of the political ideas and objects connected with it, a critical description of the city as it appears to-day and as it impressed other writers in earlier years, and sketches of the life and types of its inhabitants. Some little attention has also been given to a somewhat neglected part of the story of its origin, that is to say, to the state of affairs in this region long before the time of Peter the Great, which rendered the creation of such a settled basis on the Neva a vital necessity for Russia's progress on European lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
St Petersburg Travel Guide
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Author : Liam Winters
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-04-22
St Petersburg Travel Guide written by Liam Winters and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-22 with categories.
Situated next to the Baltic Sea, St. Petersburg is a historic and mysterious city for travelers to venture to. It's a city filled with many historical monuments, museums, restaurants, and theaters that you can explore. If you're considering visiting this historic city, this guide will help you with planning your trip to ensure you know what to expect and don't miss on some of the top spots to venture to while here. St. Petersburg has a very rich and intriguing history. Situated on the shores of the Baltic Sea, this city was founded by Peter the Great and became the official capital of Russia for over 200 years. Once known as Petrograd and Leningrad, it is one of the largest cities in not only Russia but the world. It boasts a population of over 6 million people and is known as the "Venice of the North," due to the many rivers that flow through it and out to the Baltic Sea. St. Petersburg is unique from other Russian cities in the sense that it is a mixture of European and Russian culture. You'll find this evident with the architectural styles of the buildings in it and was designed by Peter the Great to be Russia's "window on Europe."
St Petersburg
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Author : Solomon Volkov
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-06-15
St Petersburg written by Solomon Volkov and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with History categories.
The definitive cultural biography of the “Venice of the North” and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy, written by Russian emerge and acclaimed cultural historian, Solomon Volkov. 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. Now Solomon Volkov, a Russian emigre and acclaimed cultural historian, has written the definitive cultural biography of this city and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy. For Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoyevsky, Petersburg was a spectral city that symbolized the near-apocalyptic conflicts of imperial Russia. As the monarchy declined, allowing intellectuals and artists to flourish, Petersburg became a center of avant-garde experiment and flamboyant bohemian challenge to the dominating power of the state, first czarist and then communist. The names of the Russian modern masters who found expression in St. Petersburg still resonate powerfully in every field of art: in music, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich; in literature, Akhmatova, Blok, Mandelstam, Nabokov, and Brodsky; in dance, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, and Balanchine; in theater, Meyerhold; in painting, Chagall and Malevich; and many others, whose works are now part of the permanent fabric of Western civilization. Yet no comprehensive portrait of this thriving distinctive, and highly influential cosmopolitan culture, and the city that inspired it, has previously been attempted.
White Nights And Dark Days A Conversation With St Petersburg Russia
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Author : Brian Kean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-29
White Nights And Dark Days A Conversation With St Petersburg Russia written by Brian Kean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-29 with categories.
Russia is a hot topic these days. Did they or didn't interfere in our elections in 2016? I won't answer that in my book, but, what I will do is give the reader the tools, even the skills, to make that decision for themselves. I have been living and working in Russia since 1994. This book is like a crash course on Russia and what makes Russia do what Russia does. The story does not unfold in a strict flow of time--it is my life and my thoughts and they appear here as they were needed to help me to better understand my "Russian journey," to answer the questions--what is Russia and why am I here?After graduating from high school in 1985, I learned Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and became a Russian linguist. In 1990. as a 22-year old student at Rutgers University, I was rambunctious and determined to change the world. Instead, I ended up in Leningrad--the Northern Capital of the Soviet Union. It was love at first site. Shortly after the failed coup in Moscow in August 1991, I returned and began my "life" in a Soviet-Russian context. I left again for graduate school at The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. With a Master's in my hands, I was filled with the best intentions returning to help the struggling country survive the very difficult period of transition. Grants from the World Bank, Echoing Green and other funds fueled my vision and sure, my "two-cents" might have helped a bit; often it seems, though, that Russia was more helpful in my own survival. Having learned to think, feel, live and express myself in a post-Soviet world that was at times harsh and unforgiving, my 29 years in Russia have never been ones void of adventure.Despite having built major companies and leading brands in the post-Soviet space, I never set out to make lots of money like so many before and after me. My journey has been a love affair with a city that lured me to it since I was as young as ten. Those whispers of history called and called. Today, I am 53 years old and each day surviving Russia has been as unique as that first overcast evening at the Finnish border on June 15, 1990. There always seems to be a backdrop for everything in the country that just somehow makes you stop, take notice and say--Whoa, cool. I have survived three divorces, the death of both parents, grandmothers, the death of a brother and even the loss of a prematurely born child. I had a café called "The Brooklyn Bridge" practically stolen from me by the mafia and my own employees; and yet, here I am still trying to make the city a bit better, a bit more livable. My story is not a political one, however, but one about normal Russians who have crossed my path over the past 29 years. This story also does not delve into my professional accomplishments of the past 15 years (since 2005) despite the "amazing" level some of them have risen to. One thing that was of particular significance for me professionally, however, was the creation of Russia House in Davos during the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting (2016-2018). Russia was officially avoiding Davos and I kept the country present on this world stage by launching "my" version of Russia. "White Nights and Dark Days" has helped me answer the question so many Americans have asked since I first set out for Russia in 1994--"what the hell are you doing in Russia?" I have asked myself this same question countless times --it seems that I might have actually stumbled an answer. If you like to explore other cultures then this book is for you. If you want to learn how to succeed professionally in a foreign culture, give this a read. If you want to take a peak into a journey through a place and a time that few have written about, then "White Nights and Dark Days: A Conversation with St. Petersburg, Russia" is for you.This is a book about survival, about never giving up. It is a book about love.
Russia St Petersburg
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Author : Stephen Platt
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-11-15
Russia St Petersburg written by Stephen Platt and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with Travel categories.
We went to St Petersburg in 2009 for a meeting on an EU project called ISAAC about heritage tourism. The May weather was marvellous and we stayed in a nice hotel next to the Fontanka River in walking distance of Nevsky Prospect. The high spot of our trip was a private tour of the Impressionist paintings in the Hermitage and Russian art in the Russian Museum. The Hermitage Museum, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great is spectacular - lavish, ornate with the most impressive collection of art. The collections occupy a complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, home of Tsars, centre of imperial power, scene of the Bloody Sunday massacre of protesters in 1905 and subject to storming by Red Army troops in the October 1917 Revolution. We also had a boat trip to Peterhof, the Russian Versailles, begun in 1714 by Peter the Great as his Monplaisir'.
Sunlight At Midnight
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Author : Bruce Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2009-04-28
Sunlight At Midnight written by Bruce Lincoln and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-28 with History categories.
For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when, in the spring of 1703, he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500 miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather, bad water, and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. Bathed in sunlight at midnight in the summer, it brooded in darkness at noon in the winter, and its canals froze solid at least five months out of every year. Yet to the Tsar, the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a "paradise." His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris, and Vienna than to Russia's far-off eastern lands, it quickly became the political, cultural, and economic center of an empire that stretched across more than a dozen time zones and over three continents. In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush shoulders with tsars, and builders, soldiers, and statesmen share pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history of it and the nation it represents.
