Collected Works. Volume 2. The Young City of Petersburg during the Time of Peter the Great
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Collected Works. Volume 2. The Young City of Petersburg during the Time of Peter the Great
19.99 €
The distinguished historian Evgeny Anisimov, a specialist in Russian history of the 17th and 18th centuries and the author of several hundred scholarly publications, is one of the few scholars to have found a delicate balance between academic research and education. The personality and reforms of Peter the Great, the history of political investigation in Russia, the role of women on the Russian throne, and the fates of Russian political figures—the author explores a multitude of topics crucial to understanding the complex paths of Russian modernization. Each volume of his collected works is a separate monograph devoted to a particular aspect of this complex topic. Drawing on archival sources and the preceding historiographical tradition, Evgeny Anisimov describes the distant past as a living era, closely connected to the present.
In the second volume of his collected works, Evgeny Anisimov describes in detail the early years of St. Petersburg, one of Peter the Great's main legacies. Like his other transformations, the construction of the city on the Neva was a radical project designed to embody the idea of civilizational modernization and imperial power as its bearer. But what price did Russia pay for its "window to Europe"? The historian meticulously reconstructs the chaos of the early years of construction and traces the gradual ordering of the space—from the conquest of Swedish territories and the labor of convicts to the Dutch Baroque and the inhabitants of the first slobodas. Meticulously recreating the image of the city of that era, Anisimov not only delves into the details of the nascent architecture but also brings its political, social, and cultural atmosphere to life for the reader.
In the second volume of his collected works, Evgeny Anisimov describes in detail the early years of St. Petersburg, one of Peter the Great's main legacies. Like his other transformations, the construction of the city on the Neva was a radical project designed to embody the idea of civilizational modernization and imperial power as its bearer. But what price did Russia pay for its "window to Europe"? The historian meticulously reconstructs the chaos of the early years of construction and traces the gradual ordering of the space—from the conquest of Swedish territories and the labor of convicts to the Dutch Baroque and the inhabitants of the first slobodas. Meticulously recreating the image of the city of that era, Anisimov not only delves into the details of the nascent architecture but also brings its political, social, and cultural atmosphere to life for the reader.
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