For 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.
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