How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself : : The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie / / Emily D. Johnson.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration and Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. Ways of Knowing: Russian Local Studies as an Identity Discipline
- 1 The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Tradition
- 2 The Art Journals of the Silver Age, St. Petersburg Preservationism, and the Guidebook
- 3 Old Petersburg After the Revolution
- 4 The Excursion Movement and Excursion Methodology
- 5 Excursion Primers and Literary Tours
- 6 Kraevedenie in St. Petersburg
- 7 Literary Kraevedenie
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index