Midnight In St Petersburg

Author : Vanora Bennett
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443424967

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Midnight In St. Petersburg by Vanora Bennett Pdf

Faberge jewels, the mysterious Rasputin and a priceless violin—one young woman fights for survival, and for love, in revolutionary Russia. St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia’s capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her head. She loves her brooding cousin, Yasha, but he is wild, destructive and devoted to revolution; Horace Wallick, an Englishman who makes precious Faberge creations, is older and promises security and respectability. And, like many others, she is drawn to the mysterious, charismatic figure beginning to make a name for himself in the city: Rasputin. As the rebellion descends into anarchy and bloodletting, a commission to repair a priceless Stradivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But which man will she choose to take with her? And is it already too late? A magical and passionate story steeped in history and intrigue, Midnight in St. Petersburg is an extraordinary novel of music, politics and the toll that revolution exacts on the human heart.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091195289

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St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her head. She loves her brooding cousin, Yasha, but he is wild, destructive and devoted to revolution; Horace Wallick, an Englishman who makes precious Faberge creations, is older and promises security and respectability. And, like many others, she is drawn to the mysterious, charismatic figure beginning to make a name for himself in the city: Rasputin. As the rebellion descends into anarchy and bloodshed, a commission to repair a priceless Stradivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But which man will she choose to take with her? And is it already too late? A magical and passionate story steeped in history and intrigue, Vanora Bennett's Midnight in St. Petersburg is an extraordinary novel of music, politics, and the toll that revolution exacts on the human heart

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786730896

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Sunlight at Midnight by Bruce Lincoln Pdf

For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when, in the spring of 1703, he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500 miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather, bad water, and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. 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 out of every year. Yet to the Tsar, the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a "paradise." His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris, and Vienna than to Russia's far-off eastern lands, 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. In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush shoulders with tsars, and builders, soldiers, and statesmen share pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history of it and the nation it represents.

Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473535886

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St Petersburg by Jonathan Miles Pdf

'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg – one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the world. St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations – St Petersburg; Petrograd; Leningrad and, once again, St Petersburg – has always been a place of perpetual contradiction. It was a window on to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of the glory of Russia was created here: its literature, music, dance and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets. It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality. In St Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this absurd and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when – once more – its fate hangs in the balance. This is an epic tale of murder, massacre and madness played out against squalor and splendour. It is an unforgettable portrait of a city and its people.

Author : W. Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Saint Petersburg (Russia)
ISBN : OCLC:705878872

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Sunlight at Midnight by W. Bruce Lincoln Pdf

Covers the politics, culture, and science that make up the 300-year history of the city that once ruled Russia.

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0465083242

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Sunlight at Midnight by Bruce Lincoln Pdf

For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blend with images of suffering on a monumental scale to make up the historic persona the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish biography of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500 miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather, bad water and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. Yet to the Tsar the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a paradise. His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris and Vienna than to Russian's far-off eastern lands, 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.In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush shoulders with tsars and builders, soldiers and statesmen share pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history of the city and the nation it represents.

Author : Bradley Woodworth,Constance Richards,Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : 9781438115597

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St. Petersburg by Bradley Woodworth,Constance Richards,Harold Bloom Pdf

Often called the Venice of the north, St. Petersburg has remained the crown jewel of the Russian artistic scent. Writers covered include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, and Aleksandr Pushkin.

Author : Nadia Ptashchenko
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640397983

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Creation of the Dutch Art Collection in the Hermitage in the 18th Century and the Role it Played in the Westernization of Russia by Nadia Ptashchenko Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: ECTS 8, University of Groningen, course: M.A. "Euroculture", language: English, abstract: This paper attempts to follow the cultural channels and actual steps taken by Peter the Great and his successors to cultivate Western European tastes in Russia and to direct the Russian Empire to a Western path of development. It investigates the historic role of St. Petersburg as Russia's "window on Europe", and features the great masterworks of Western European art (namely, Dutch) assembled and prized in the Hermitage by the Romanov dynasty, by Peter the Great and by his spiritual follower and enlightener - Catherine the Great, in particular. Over the course of centuries, Russian tsars continuously borrowed ideas and concepts from their Western neighbors. St. Petersburg was to mark the way for Russia to become modern by creating an environment that could be maintained only by broader and deeper contact with the West. However, Peter Rietbergen in his essay on "Russia between West and East" stresses "the inherent duality in Russian culture, and in the national character, as half-Asian, half-European". This issue is to be discussed and evaluated in the paper. A chronological overview of the main acquisitions of Dutch paintings to the Hermitage in the course of the XVIII century is included in the paper. It is hoped that the paper will add to the understanding of the described epoch of the Russian Empire and will expose the role it played in defining its path of historical development. The thesis statement investigated in the paper is as follows: "Has the borrowing of cultural values from Western Europe contributed to the Europeanization of Russia in the XVIII century?" Under the term "cultural values" artefacts, objects of art, enlightening ideas and books, as well as progressive reforms, European fashion and lifestyle, etc are implied. One of th

Author : Julie A. Buckler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691187617

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Mapping St. Petersburg by Julie A. Buckler Pdf

Author : A. Cross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403937469

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St Petersburg, 1703-1825 by A. Cross Pdf

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.

Author : P. Keenan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137311603

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St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703-1761 by P. Keenan Pdf

This book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were introduced in the city during the eighteenth century.

Author : Vance Kepley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857718419

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The End of St. Petersburg by Vance Kepley Pdf

Pudovkin's epic is the most complex work of his brilliant career. The film was made to commemorate the Bolshevik Revolution's tenth anniversary and it is a gripping recreation of the events of 1917 as well as the conditions and events that led to revolution. It is a remarkable interweaving of subplots, motifs and historical references, realized through a mix of cinematic techniques, which Vance Keply Jr traces and clarifies in his analysis of the film. He explores the production circumstances that shaped the film and its reception, establishing its key place in both Russian and world cinema.

Author : Barbara J. Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 0615648061

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Midnight in St. Petersburg by Barbara J. Webb Pdf

Rose Daziani is a sensitive-a powerful psychic who can read the hearts of those around her and see things no one else can. It's a neat party trick, but doesn't exactly pay the rent. That is, until a mysterious phone call summons her halfway around the world to the exotic city of St. Petersburg, Russia, and offers her a job using those psychic gifts she's kept secret all her life. But it turns out there's a reason Rose is worth so much to her employers. Her team-a vampire, a fae-blooded hunter, and a priest Templar-can't stop fighting with each other, mired in centuries-old grudges. The supernatural community of St. Petersburg is on the brink of war, and Rose herself has drawn the attention of a killer who will stop at nothing to get the vengeance he seeks. Rose will have to dig deep to find the truths that lie beneath the surface if she wants to succeed...or survive.

Author : Николай Алексеевич Некрасов,Thomas Gaiton Marullo
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810125735

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Petersburg by Николай Алексеевич Некрасов,Thomas Gaiton Marullo Pdf

This collection of short works forms a documentary of life in the mid-nineteenth-century metropolis.

Author : Mark D. Steinberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300165708

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Petersburg Fin de Siècle by Mark D. Steinberg Pdf

The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.Mark Steinberg, distinguished historian of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examines the work of writers of all kinds, from anonymous journalists to well-known public intellectuals, from secular liberals to religious conservatives. Though diverse in their perspectives, these urban writers were remarkably consistent in the worries they expressed. They grappled with the impact of technological and material progress on the one hand, and with an ever-deepening anxiety and pessimism on the other. Steinberg reveals a new, darker perspective on the history of St. Petersburg on the eve of revolution and presents a fresh view of Russia's experience of modernity.