{"product_id":"preserving-petersburg-history-memory-nostalgia-paperback","title":"Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelena Goscilo\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephen M. Norris\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelena Goscilo is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eRussia Women Culture, \u003c\/i\u003e edited with Beth Holmgren (IUP, 1996), and Anastasia Verbitskaia's \u003ci\u003eKeys to Happiness, \u003c\/i\u003e translated and edited with Beth Holmgren (IUP, 1999).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is author of \u003ci\u003eA War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945\u003c\/i\u003e and editor (with Zara Torlone) of \u003ci\u003eInsiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47408746889394,"sku":"9780253219800","price":34.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/82d8873979162ef14108e1da2139799c.webp?v=1778251945","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/preserving-petersburg-history-memory-nostalgia-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}