Preserving Petersburg, livre ebook

Innovative perspectives on how St. Petersburg's rich cultural heritage is preserved and rememberedFor more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece, it has functioned as a site for preservation, a literal and imaginative place where Russians can commune with idealized pasts. Preserving Petersburg represents a significant departure from traditional representations. By moving beyond the "Petersburg text" created by canonized writers and artists, the contributors to this engrossing volume trace the ways in which St. Petersburg has become a "museum piece," embodying history, nostalgia, and recourse to memories of the past. The essays in this attractively illustrated volume trace a process of preservation that stretches back nearly three centuries, as manifest in the works of noted historians, poets, novelists, artists, architects, filmmakers, and dramatists. ContentsIntroduction: Preserving Petersburg / Helena Goscilo and Stephen M. Norris1. St. Petersburg and the Art of Survival / William Craft Brumfield2. The City's Memory: Texts of Preservation and Loss in Imperial St. Petersburg / Julie Buckler3. Unsaintly St. Petersburg? Visions and Visuals / Helena Goscilo4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg in Mandelstam's Poetry / Zara Torlone5. Petersburg in the Poetry of the Russian Emigration / Vladimir Khazan6. Multiethnic St. Petersburg: The Late Imperial Period / Steven Duke7. Leningrad Culture under Siege (1941–1944) / Cynthia Simmons8. Cultural Capital and Cultural Heritage: St. Petersburg and the Arts of Imperial Russia / Richard Stites9. Strolls Through Postmodern Petersburg: Celebrating the City in 2003 / Stephen M. NorrisList of ContributorsIndex