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St Petersburg, 1703-1825

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Editors:
  1. Anthony Cross

    1. Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anthony Cross
    Pages 1-5

  3. St Petersburg and Geographies of Modernity in Eighteenth-Century Russia

    • Denis J. B. Shaw
    Pages 6-29

  4. St Petersburg during the Reign of Anna Ivanovna: The Forbes/Maas Chart and the Evolution of the Early Mapping of the City

    • Michael J. Bitter
    Pages 30-49

  5. The English Embankment

    • Anthony Cross
    Pages 50-70

  6. A Venice of the North? Italian Views of St Petersburg

    • Maria Di Salvo
    Pages 71-79

  7. Compiling and Maintaining St Petersburg’s ‘Book of City Inhabitants’: The ‘Real’ City Inhabitants

    • George E. Munro
    Pages 80-98

  8. Governing the City: St Petersburg and Catherine II’s Reforms

    • Janet M. Hartley
    Pages 99-118

  9. Petersburg Actresses On and Off Stage (1775–1825)

    • Wendy Rosslyn
    Pages 119-147

  10. Peter the Great’s St Petersburg in the Works of Pavel Svin’in (1787–1839)

    • Lindsey Hughes
    Pages 148-164

  11. Vreden sever: The Decembrists’ Memories of the Peter-Paul Fortress

    • Patrick O’Meara
    Pages 165-189

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 190-197
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About this book

A collection of nine articles written by leading scholars in Britain, Ireland, Italy and the USA on various aspects of the city of St Petersburg during the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end of the reign of Alexander I. Cartography, architecture, social history and foreign perceptions are some of the subjects covered in these lively and informed essays.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

    Anthony Cross

About the editor

MICHAEL J BITTER Assistant Professor of History, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii ANTHONY CROSS Professor of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge MARIA DI SALVO Professor of Slavic Philology, University of Milan, Italy JANET M HARTLEY Senior Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science LINDSEY HUGHES Professor of Russian History and Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London GEORGE E MUNRO Researcher, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA PATRICK J O'MEARA Associate Professor of Russian at Trinity College, University of Dublin WENDY ROSSLYN Professor of Russian Literature, University of Nottingham DENIS SHAW Reader in Russian Geography, University of Birmingham

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: St Petersburg, 1703-1825

  • Editors: Anthony Cross

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403937469

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1570-2Published: 12 August 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51241-6Published: 01 January 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-3746-9Published: 12 August 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 197

  • Topics: European History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History

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