A Travellers Companion To St Petersburg

Selections from novels, letters, diaries, and memoirs trace the history of St. Petersburg from earliest times. First-hand accounts tell of the 1825 Decembrists refusing to accept Nicholas I as Tsar and being shot down in the snow in Senate Square ; the imprisonment of Dostoevsky and the duel that killed Pushkin ; and the storming of the Winter Palace by the crowd in 1917. Includes notes on the history, art, architecture and life in the city.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Interlink Publishing Group

Editions

1

Pages

285

ISBN

9781566564922

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