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How St. Petersburg learned to study itself : the Russian idea of kraevedenie /

In the bookshops of present-day St. Petersburg, guidebooks abound. Both modern descriptions of Russia's old imperial capital and lavish new editions of pre-Revolutionary texts sell well, primarily attracting an audience of local residents. Why do Russians read one- and two-hundred-year-old guid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Emily D., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Studies of the Harriman Institute.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Ways of knowing--Russian local studies as an identity discipline
  • The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century tradition
  • The art journals of the Silver Age, St. Petersburg preservationism, and the guidebook
  • Old Petersburg after the Revolution
  • The excursion movement and excursion methodology
  • Excursion primers and literary tours
  • Kraevedenie in St. Petersburg
  • Literary kraevedenie.