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Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia.
Edited by Helena Goscilo and Stephen M. Norris
For 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.
Helena Goscilo is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the
University of Pittsburgh. Her many books include Russia Women Culture,
edited with Beth Holmgren (IUP, 1996), and Anastasia Verbitskaia's Keys
to Happiness, translated and edited with Beth Holmgren (IUP, 1999).
Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints,
Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Preserving Petersburg / Helena Goscilo and Stephen M.
Norris
1. St. Petersburg and the Art of Survival / William Craft Brumfield
2. The City's Memory: Texts of Preservation and Loss in Imperial St.
Petersburg / Julie Buckler
3. Unsaintly St. Petersburg? Visions and Visuals / Helena Goscilo
4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg in Mandelstam's
Poetry / Zara Torlone
5. Petersburg in the Poetry of the Russian Emigration / Vladimir Khazan
6. Multiethnic St. Petersburg: The Late Imperial Period / Steven Duke
7. Leningrad Culture under Siege (1941-1944) / Cynthia Simmons
8. Cultural Capital and Cultural Heritage: St. Petersburg and the Arts
of Imperial Russia / Richard Stites
9. Strolls Through Postmodern Petersburg: Celebrating the City in 2003 /
Stephen M. Norris
List of Contributors
Index
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