Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences
Author: St. Petersburg
Author: Arthur L. GeorgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
St. Petersburg covers the city's political and social history, as well as its infinite contributions to scholarship, culture, and world politics.
St. Petersburg
Author: Jeremy HowardPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426200502
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
These information-packed guides offer savvy advice and the in-depth information that sophisticated travelers demand. Each guide features: Detailed background and site descriptions; mapped walking and driving tours; full-service sidebars with fascinating vignettes on history, culture, and contemporary life; a 60-page directory of visitor information, including notable hotels and restaurants, entertainment, and shopping; and foldout end flaps, printed with maps and quick reference information, that serve as handy bookmarks.
The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, 1842, Vol. 2
Author: S. WarrandPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260296214
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Excerpt from The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, 1842, Vol. 2: First Year Gabriel, who had stepped forward to render her assistance, fell back as she made this hasty exclamation, and negarded hes in silent wonder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The St. Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 4
Author: S. WarrandPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332613895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Excerpt from The St. Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 4: First Year But though it is possible that this deception began in acci dent or thoughtlessness, we cannot doubt that the natural predisposition of her mind was towards artifice and maneuv ring. It was early remarked as a prominent defect in her no vels that all her heroines were exhibited as the victims of trifling annoyances and imaginary difficulties. From which two words of candour and common-sense would have extricated them. The same error' runs through her own memoirs. She represents herself as thrown into eonfusions, embarrassments, terrors, miseries, and so forth, by the most ordinary Occur. Rences of common life. If she is spoken to, she is in a flutter of modest agitation: if not spoken to, she is still more alarm ed at such ominous silence. Lf complimented, she is inclined to creep under the chair: if not attended to, she retreats into indignant seclusion. She is afraid to make tea at an evening party, lest she should appear too obtrusive; and if she does not, she is in still worse agonies, lest she should be thought supercilious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Midnight in St. Petersburg
Author: Vanora BennettPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466892161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Faberge jewels, the mysterious Rasputin, and a priceless violin: each plays a part in one young woman's fight 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. 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 Stadivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But what 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.
The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences
Author: The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences
Author: St. Petersburg
Author: Andrey BielyPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A landmark in Russian literature hailed as “one of the four great masterpieces of twentieth-century prose” by Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita. In this incomparable novel of the seething revolutionary Russia of 1905, Andrey Biely plays ingeniously on the great themes of Russian history and literature as he tells the mesmerizing tale of Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, a high-ranking Tsarist official, and his dilettante son, Nikolai, an aspiring terrorist, whose first assignment is to assassinate his father. “There is nothing like a ticking time bomb to supply fictional suspense, and perhaps no other writer has ever used the device more successfully than Andrey Biely in St. Petersburg . . . Biely is a crafty storyteller who can keep a reader flipping the pages while whipping up an intellectual storm.” —Time
The Man from St. Petersburg
Author: Ken FollettPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451208705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini." —New York Times Book Review His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world—except the man from St. Petersburg.