SUNLIGHT AT MIDNIGHT: St. Petersburg And The Rise Of Modern Russia

Lincoln, W. Bruce

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Edité par NY. 2000. Basic Books / Perseus Book Group, 2001

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brown & black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). deckled foredge. colored endpapers. decorative title pg. viii+419p. glossy b&w illustrations & photos. notes. index. world history. history of russia. napoleonic wars. russian revolution. world war i. world war ii. soviet union. cold war. ~ THE CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG has encompassed all that Russians are and all hope to become. Home to Peter and Catherine The Great, it provided creative sustenencve to Dostoevskii, Rimskii~Korsakov, Pavlova And Nizhinskii, Faberge, Gogol, and even Joseph Brodsky. Althoughj St. Petersburg has played a role in many histories of Russia, until now there has been n definitive history of the city and all its elements. In this stunning and lavish biography of St. Petersburg, W. Bruce Lincoln captures all of the city's opulence and artistic brilliance, blended with images of power, suffering and monumental heroism. Climate and comfort were not what Peter the Great had in mind when he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta in the spring of 1703. Barely 500 miles below the Arctic Circle and easily submerged by the tides that flowed upriver from the Gulf of Finland, the region saw snow as ea.rly as September and as late as May. Its foul weather, bad water and low lying sodden soil made it so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever bothered to settle there. Yet to the Tsar, the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a "paradise." And like Russia Itself, Peter's new capital became a place of startling contrasts. Bathed in sunlight at midnight in the summer, it brooded in darkness at noon in the winter and its canals froze solid at least five months of every year. St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris, and Vienna than to Russia's faroff eastern lands, but it quickly became the political, cultural, and economic center of an empire that stretched across more than a dozen time zones and over three continents. A European capital of an Asiatic nation, St. Petersburg eventually became a model of what Russia ought to become, and the Russians embraced everything it represented. Not since the Roman Empire has a city stood so completely for the realm it ruled. Lincoln's epic history of St. Petersburg is, inevitably, also a history of modern Russia. Sunlight at Midnight is a tale of men and women struggling against the awesome forces of nature, backwardness, and repression to create the triumphs in politics, culture, and science that make up the 300~year history of St. Petersburg. Lincoln peoples his brilliant look at St. Petersburg with revolutionaries and laborers who brush shoulders with tsars, and with builders, soldiers, and statesmen who share a sense of place with poets. By depicting the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city ~ the power, the heroism, the fortitude ~ Lincoln reveals the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped its history and that of the Russia it once ruled.

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Titre
SUNLIGHT AT MIDNIGHT: St. Petersburg And The Rise Of Modern Russia
Auteur
Lincoln, W. Bruce
Éditeur
NY. 2000. Basic Books / Perseus Book Group
Année de publication
2001
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anglais
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0465083234
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9780465083237
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