The companion guide to St Petersburg

Kyril Zinovieff and Jenny Hughes

"The Companion Guide to St Petersburg" has been published in spring 2003 to coincide with the tercentenary of the founding of the city. Most visitors to St Petersburg have heard at least four facts about it: that it is 'the Venice of the North'; that a vast number of workmen, perhaps a hundred thousand, died in the early years of its construction; that it was built on uninhabited marshes; and that it was founded on territory which did not and never had belonged to Russia. These 'facts' have one feature in common: none of them is true. Few people can say this with more authority that Kyril Zinovieff, who comes from a family associated with the administration of St Petersburg since the eighteenth century. He recalls being taken as a child in 1917 to see the damage done to the Winter Palace - which he found regettably unspectacular. And more: 'My sister and I may have been two of the last people still alive to have seen Rasputin' is the startling beginning of another chapter. His knowledge of the history of his city, where every stone tells a story, is encyclopaedic; his respect for the spiritual strength of its inhabitants unbounded; he has produced a work of charm, humour and erudition with a unique insight into this amazing city. Kyril Zinovieff, as Kyril Fitzlyon, has made noted translations from the Russian, including the "Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky"; this book has been written with Jenny Hughes, formerly of the "Economist" and the "Guardian".

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書名 The companion guide to St Petersburg
著作者等 FitzLyon, Kyril
Hughes, Jenny
Zinovieff Kyril
シリーズ名 The Companion guides
出版元 Companion Guides
刊行年月 2003
ページ数 xvi, 478 p., [16] p. of plates
大きさ 19 cm
ISBN 1900639408
NCID BA63751555
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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