St. Petersburg Tenement Buildings: Essays on the History of Everyday Life – Yukhneva Ekaterina – Centerpoligraph – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-227-11280-4
St. Petersburg Tenement Buildings: Essays on the History of Everyday Life
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St. Petersburg Tenement Buildings: Essays on the History of Everyday Life
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Before our very eyes, old St. Petersburg housing is disappearing into oblivion. This fourth, expanded and revised edition is an attempt to create a unique monument not to the ceremonial, but to everyday St. Petersburg. E.D. Yukhneva's book is dedicated to one of the most fascinating aspects of old St. Petersburg life—its tenement houses.
The author meticulously recreates the atmosphere of luxurious "lordly" apartments with their boudoirs, studies, sofas, and children's rooms, bachelor attics, bureaucratic apartments, as well as the bleak existence of closets, corners, attics, and basements. You will read everything about the architecture, decoration, layout, and interiors of tenement houses—from modest wooden five-walled buildings to the stone colossi of the early 20th century. You'll learn how people lived: without running water, sewerage, steam heating, electricity, and other household amenities brought by technological progress, you'll see a realistic picture of life in a St. Petersburg apartment building.
The author meticulously recreates the atmosphere of luxurious "lordly" apartments with their boudoirs, studies, sofas, and children's rooms, bachelor attics, bureaucratic apartments, as well as the bleak existence of closets, corners, attics, and basements. You will read everything about the architecture, decoration, layout, and interiors of tenement houses—from modest wooden five-walled buildings to the stone colossi of the early 20th century. You'll learn how people lived: without running water, sewerage, steam heating, electricity, and other household amenities brought by technological progress, you'll see a realistic picture of life in a St. Petersburg apartment building.
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- All books in the series All about St. Petersburg