Journey to Pushkin's Petersburg
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Journey to Pushkin's Petersburg
14.99 €
The book by Arkady and Mikhail Gordin, “Journey to Pushkin’s Petersburg,” offers modern readers a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the life of the Russian capital in the first third of the 19th century. This is a remarkable guide to Petersburg during Pushkin’s time, telling not only about how the architectural appearance of the city changed, but also about how its management system was built, how the daily life of the people who inhabited it (the highest aristocracy, officials, military personnel, clergy, scientists, doctors, actors, merchants, artisans, peasants) went, as well as about the most significant cultural and historical events of those years.
Based on extensive literature (testimonies of memoirists, newspapers, magazines, archival documents of the first half of the 19th century, scientific sources), the authors of the book unfold before the readers a broad panorama of the socio-political, literary, artistic and economic life of Petersburg.
First published in 1983, this book has served as the foundation for numerous studies of Russian everyday culture in the 19th century and remains an invaluable source of information and entertaining reading for anyone interested in Russian history.
Based on extensive literature (testimonies of memoirists, newspapers, magazines, archival documents of the first half of the 19th century, scientific sources), the authors of the book unfold before the readers a broad panorama of the socio-political, literary, artistic and economic life of Petersburg.
First published in 1983, this book has served as the foundation for numerous studies of Russian everyday culture in the 19th century and remains an invaluable source of information and entertaining reading for anyone interested in Russian history.
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