How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie

Name: How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie
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ISBN: 9780271028729

ISBN-10: 0271028726

ISBN-13: 9780271028729

Edition: 2006

Authors: Emily D. Johnson

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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 guidebooks to a city they already know well? In

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List price: $83.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 6/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Emily Johnson is Assistant Professor of Russian Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Oklahoma.



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



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


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index