A Traveller's Companion to St. Petersburg

by Laurence Kelly

Book Overview

Large as life impressions of the noble Tsarist city A vivid selection from biographies, novels, letters, poems, diaries, and memoirs traces the story of St. Petersburg from earliest times. Through these pieces, we can observe the city's foundation by Peter the Great on the marshy shores of the gulf of Finland, see how literature and the other arts flowered so strongly during the nineteenth century, and observe the often violent turning points of its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566564921
• ISBN13: 9781566564922
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"