With a vivid selection of biographies, novels, letters and memoirs traces the story of St. Petersburg, and shows how literature and art flowered in this turbulent, fascinating place. Illustrations.[...]
Through the voices of visitors and residents, the turbulent growth of Moscow is recorded in this evocative and informative anthology: Peter the Great's bloody reprisals in 1698; Napoleon's ignominious retreat in 1812; the flowering of literary greatness in the 19th century; and the dazzling profusio[...]
When a Tehran mob broke into the Russian embassy and murdered all the diplomats there, the dead included one of the most brilliant and promising writers of 19th-century Russia. In this first biography of Griboyedov in English, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of his remarkable literary and dipl[...]