Vilnius: City of Wanderers

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Vilnius: City of Wanderers

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The book by the Lithuanian-Canadian geographer and cultural historian Laimonas Briedis tells the story of the multicultural capital of Lithuania from its “birth in Europe” in the 1812th century to the present day. Vilnius as a "geographical personality" and "historical hero" is shown through the eyes of "foreigners" who visited it. Based on numerous sources in different languages, the author traces what cartographic, political and cultural meanings the city was endowed with at different periods of its history. The capital of a pagan principality through the eyes of Catholic missionaries; a baroque city in the vastness of mythical Sarmatia through the eyes of European cartographers; the Polish province through the eyes of the famous traveler and naturalist Georg Forster; the city during the war of XNUMX 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 Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy); the occupied city during the First World War through the eyes of a German soldier-flaneur; mysterious Jewish Vilna through the eyes of the German modernist writer Alfred Döblin - these are just some of the plots included in the polyphonic narrative about Vilnius. The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

Barcode: 9785759819660 SKU: 70141302 Categories: ,
Publication language: Russian

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