Vilnius: City of Wanderers
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The book by Lithuanian-Canadian geographer and cultural historian Laimonas Briedis tells the story of Lithuania's multicultural capital from its "birth in Europe" in the 14th century to the present day. Vilnius as a "geographical personality" and "historical hero" is shown through the eyes of "outsiders" who visited it. Relying on numerous sources in different languages, the author traces what cartographic, political and cultural meanings were given to the city in different periods of its history. The capital of a pagan principality through the eyes of Catholic missionaries; a baroque city on the expanses of mythical Sarmatia through the eyes of European cartographers; a Polish province through the eyes of the famous traveler and naturalist Georg Forster; a city of the War of 1812 through the eyes of the Viennese doctor Josef Frank; Vilna as part of the Russian Empire through the eyes of Russian classics (Alexander Ostrovsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy); an occupied city during World War I through the eyes of a German soldier-flanner; a mysterious Jewish Vilna through the eyes of a German soldier-flanner; and a mysterious Jewish Vilna through the eyes of a German doctor. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers.
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