Inhoud

Non-fictie

Onderwerpen

Gidsen en plattegronden | Sint-Petersburg

Taal

Engels

Serie

Innercities cultural guides

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Uitgever

Signal Books Limited, Oxford

Verschenen

2017

ISBN

9781909930490

Kenmerken

233 pagina's

Aantekening

Met literatuuropgave en register

1. Contours -- Geography and Nature -- The River Neva -- Health and Mortality -- City in Flux -- 2. Streets -- How the City Grew -- The City Plan and Grid System -- Hard Labour -- The Twelve Colleges -- Industrial Developments -- The Merchants' Court -- New Holland -- Yury Felten -- The Napoleonic Period -- Urban Infrastructure -- Becoming Modern -- War, Revolution and Twentieth-Century Decline -- Post-Soviet City -- 3. Face of the City -- Iconic Buildings and Architectural Styles -- Palatial St. Petersburg -- The Admiralty -- Third Winter Palace -- Age of Science: The Kunstkammer of Peter the Great -- Family Fortunes -- Aristocratic Addresses -- The Mikhailovsky Castle -- Krestovsky Palace -- The Stock Exchange -- Conflagration at the Winter Palace -- The New Hermitage -- Stackenschneider's Legacy -- Modern Trends -- Commercial Palaces of the Industrial Age -- Palace of Workers -- Architectural Revival -- 4. Rulers and Ruled -- The Romanovs -- Imperial Rule -- Court Life -- Elite Culture -- Hero and Villain -- Symptoms of Change -- Rasputin -- The Lure of the Exotic -- 5. City of Blood -- Revolution and War -- Revolution -- War and Blockade -- Crime and Punishment -- 6. The City Imagined -- Literature and Theatre -- Early Theatre -- Soirees -- Alexander Pushkin -- Gogol, Turgenev and Dostoyevsky -- Anton Chekhov -- Maxim Gorky -- From Silver Age to Soviet Rule -- Aleksey Tolstoy -- Post-War Years -- 7. Visualizing the City -- Canvas and Screen -- The Imperial Academy of Arts -- The Rumyantsev Mansion -- The Hermitage -- World of Art -- The End of Private Ownership -- Cinema -- 8. Stage Life -- Music and Theatre -- Aristocrats and Serfs -- The Imperial Capella -- Dancing -- The Mikhailovsky and Mariinsky Theatres -- Musical Avant-Garde -- Jazz and Pop Music in Leningrad/St Petersburg -- Modern Revival -- 9. Faith in the City -- The Role of Religion -- The Peter and Paul Cathedral -- The Alexander Nevsky Monastery -- Archbishop Feofan Prokopovich -- Religious Monuments -- The Anglican Church and British Visitors -- Religious Revivalism -- Other Faiths -- Assault on the Church -- Today's Faiths -- 10. Changing Faces -- Migration and Social Change -- The American Connection -- The European Imprint -- Fin-de-Siècle City -- Exodus -- Foreign Investment -- 11. Consuming Interests -- The Culture of Food, Trade and Consumerism -- Cafe Culture -- Revolutionary Austerity? -- Modern Tastes -- 12. Surroundings -- The City's Hinterland -- Suburban Palaces -- Dachas and Cottages -- The Pursuit of Pleasure -- Decline and Revival of the Peterhof Road.