Kelly, Catriona, author.
New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014];©2014
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-452) and index.
- Introduction: city panorama — Moscow Station and Palace Bridge — Making a home on the Neva — The Hermitage and my own front door : city spaces — Initiation into the working class — Eliseev and Aprashka — Theatre Street — From Nord to Saigon — The twenty-seventh kilometre — The last journey.
- Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities – a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. This book shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St Petersburg’s residents.
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