St. Petersburg : Russia's window to the future--the first three centuries / Arthur L. George with Elena George.

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Edition:1st Taylor Trade Publishing ed.
Published: Lanham, [Md.] : Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A Tale of Three Cities
  • Ch. 1. A Giant's Vision: A New National Life
  • Ch. 2. Building Peter's Paradise
  • Ch. 3. Life in Peter's Paradise
  • Ch. 4. Decline and Rebirth
  • Ch. 5. Looking Like Europe: Elizabeth's Petersburg
  • Ch. 6. Thinking Like Europe: The Petersburg of Catherine II
  • Ch. 7. Petersburg under the Errant Knight
  • Ch. 8. Crossroads: Alexander I and the Decembrist Rebellion
  • Ch. 9. Pushkin's St. Petersburg, Imperial St. Petersburg
  • Ch. 10. Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg
  • Ch. 11. From World of Art to Apocalypse
  • Ch. 12. Cradle of Revolution and Despair
  • Ch. 13. Becoming Leningrad: The Revenge of Muscovy
  • Ch. 14. Hero City
  • Ch. 15. Rocking the Cradle
  • Ch. 16. The Revenge of St. Petersburg.